Species Leptosynapta dolabrifera (Stimpson, 1855)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Synapta dolabrifera Stimpson, W. 1855. Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. Echinodermata. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7(10): 385-387 [386].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined, ?lost), Port (as Fort) Jackson, NSW.
• Leptosynapta ictinodes Clark, H.L. 1924. The holothurians of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy: the Synaptinae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 65: 459-501 pls 1-12 [481, pl. 7(7-11)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 956, Westernport, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] (following examination of type specimens of Leptosynapta ictinodes H.L. Clark, 1924 and a wide range of comparative material)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mooloolaba, Qld south, west and north to Houtman Abrolhos, WA and possibly as far north as Port Hedland and False Cape Bossut WA; southwest Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-200 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Australian Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
• Southwest Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, deposit feeder, detritivore, 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 (also as Leptosynapta ictinodes H.L. Clark, 1924)

Rowe, F.W.E. 1989. Nine new deep-water species of Echinodermata from Norfolk Island and Wanganella Bank, northeastern Tasman Sea, with a checklist of the echinoderm fauna. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111(4): 257-291 12 figs 1 table (also as Leptosynapta ictinodes H.L. Clark, 1924)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)