Species Heterobrissus gigas Baker & Rowe, 1990

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• Heterobrissus gigas 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 [309, figs 18, 78-80, 112-114].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM J10824, east of Brush Is. NSW.
  Paratype(s) AM J6383; AM J14466; AM J14470; AM J14474; AM J10871; MONZ 3922; AM J12432; AM J10819; AM J10820; AM J10825; AM J10822; AM J14472; AM J14473; MONZ 3921; AM J11031.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

SE Australia between Cape Hawke, NSW and Cape Everard, Vic; southwest Pacific Ocean. Depth range 128-503 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, deposit feeder, temperate.

 

General References

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 [429] (misidentified as Archaeopneustes niasicus H.L. Clark, 1938)

Mortensen, T. 1950. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (1). Spatangoida. I. Protosternata, Meridosternata, Amphisternata I, Palaeopneustidae, Palaeostomatidae, Aëropsidae, Toxasteridae, Micrasteridae, Hemiasteridae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 422 pp. 315 figs 25 pls.

 

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)