Species Holopneustes purpurascens A. Agassiz, 1872

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Species Holopneustes purpurascens A. Agassiz, 1872

Holopneustes purpurascens Agassiz, A. 1872. Preliminary notice of a few species of Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 3(4): 55-58 [56] [Lütken ms].
Type data:
Holotype ZMH (depository uncertain), Australia.
Type locality references:
Agassiz, A. 1872. Revision of the Echini. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 7(1): 1-242, pls A-G [136].
Holopneustes pycnotilus Clark, H.L. 1912. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentrotidae and Echinometridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 34(4): 205-383 pls 90-121 [334, pls 104(4), 112(6-9)].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ 1558, Port Jackson, NSW.
Paratype(s) MCZ 1559 13 specimens.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (2). Camarodonta I. Orthopsidae, Glyphocyphidae, Temnopleuridae and Toxopneustidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 553 pp. 321 figs 56 pls. [217-218] (included purpurascens in synonymy with inflatus)
Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] (considers purpurascens, of which pycnotilus is a junior synonym, distinct from inflatus based principally on stouter test, larger, crowded tubercles and thicker coarser spines of purpurascens)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Richmond River, NSW to Perth, WA. Littoral waters

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, temperate.

General References

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

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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

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