Species Lovenia elongata (Gray, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spatangus elongata Gray, J.E. 1845. Description of two new invertebrate animals from Australia. pp. 435–436 pl. 6 in Eyre, E.J. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the years 1840–1. London : T & W. Boone. [436, pl. 6(2-2b)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ('type' can no longer be found in BMNH collections, see Clark & Rowe (1971)), Port Essington, NT (as Western Australia).

  Type locality references:

  Gray, J.E. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Echinida Irregularia. London : British Museum Vol. 1 69 pp., 6 pls. [45].
• Lovenia camarota Clark, H.L. 1917. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. Based upon collections made by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross in 1902, Commander Chauncey Thomas, U.S.N., commanding, and in 1906, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. The Spatangina. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 46(2): 79-283 pls 144-161 [253, pl. 161(1-4)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 3201, west of Torres Strait, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [164]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Barrow Is., WA to (Port Jackson), NSW; Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-94 m, Miocene deposits from Persian Gulf and Pleistocene deposits from the Red Sea.

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), 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: Central E coast, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, deposit feeder, 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 (as Lovenia camarota H.L. Clark, 1917)

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 Lovenia camarota H.L. Clark, 1917)

 

History of changes

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