Species Macrophiothrix callizona H.L. Clark, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macrophiothrix callizona 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 [293-294, pl. 24(1)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 5112, Broome, WA.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 5113.
• Macrophiothrix calyptaspis 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 [294-295, pl. 25(3)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 5114, Broome, WA.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 5115.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hoggett, A.K. 1991. The genus Macrophiothrix (Ophiuroidea: Ophiotrichidae) in Australian waters. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1077-1146, 36 figs [1086]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. 1968. Notes on some tropical Indo-Pacific ophiotrichids and ophiodermatids (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 16(7): 277-322 figs 1-10 pl. 1 [287-288, fig. 3c, 4f, 5e, f, 7c] (as Macrophiothrix callizona)

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. [82-83, fig. 37j] (as Macrophiothrix callizona)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [221] (as Macrophiothrix callizona)

Hoggett, A.K. 1991. The genus Macrophiothrix (Ophiuroidea: Ophiotrichidae) in Australian waters. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1077-1146, 36 figs [1086-1089, fig. 4-5] (as Macrophiothrix callizona)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [412] (as Macrophiothrix callizona)

 

History of changes

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15-Sep-2023		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)