Species Heterocentrotus mamillatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Echinus mamillatus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [664] [Gmelin, J.F. 1790. Pisces. pp. 3021–3909 in Caroli a Linné (ed). Systema Naturae. Vol. 1 Part 6 Vermes. Leiden : Delamolliere (3175) emended spelling; see also Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (3). Camarodonta II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 446 pp. 215 figs 66 pls (419)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Gmelin, J.F. 1790. Pisces. pp. 3021-3909 in Caroli a Linné (ed.). Systema Naturae. Vol. 1 Part 6 Vermes. Leiden : Delamolliere.; Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (3). Camarodonta II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 446 pp. 215 figs 66 pls.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cape Jaubert, WA, to Capricorn Group, Qld and from Middleton Reef, Tasman Sea; Indo-Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-30 m, Upper Pliocene or Pleistocene deposits from Red Sea and ?Pleistocene deposits from Ceram.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls.

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

Marsh, L.M., Vail, L.L., Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1993. Part 6. Echinoderms of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. pp. 53-65 2 tables in Berry, P.F. (ed.). Marine faunal surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island North-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 91 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	ECHINODERMATA	24-Aug-2023	MODIFIED	Nish Nizar (NMV)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)