Species Granobrissoides dyscritus (H.L. Clark, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eupatagus dyscritus Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 55: 1-596, figs 1-64, pls 1-28 [436, pl. 28(10-11)].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F45135, uncertain, probably coast of VIC.

 

Generic Combinations

• Granobrissoides dyscritus (H.L. Clark, 1938).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

(Vic), Investigator Strait, SA to Cottesloe, WA. Depth range unknown

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, temperate.

 

General References

Baker, A.N. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1990. Atelostomatid sea urchins from Australian and New Zealand waters (Echinoidea: Cassiduloida, Holasteroida, Spatangoida, Neolampadoida). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 282-316 figs 1-114 [292] (as cf Granobrissoides dyscritus (H.L. Clark, 1938))

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Eupatagus dyscritus H.L. Clark, 1938)

Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (2). Spatangoida. II. Amphisternata II, Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 593 pp. 286 figs 64 pls. (as Lissospatangus dyscritus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Feb-2012		17-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)