Species Meridiastra fissura O'Loughlin, 2002

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meridiastra fissura O'Loughlin, P.M. 2002. New genus and species of southern Australian and Pacific Asterinidae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(2): 277-296 [283-285, fig. 3a-f].

  Type data:

   Holotype MV F87157, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, rocky shallows.
  Paratype(s) MV F71878 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, sublittoral rocky reef; MV F86021 7 specimens, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, sublittoral rocky reef; MV F87227 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, sublittoral rocky reef; MV F71880 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, sublittoral rocky reef; MV F71879 3 specimens, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, sublittoral rocky reef; MV F86019 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platform, sublittoral rocky reef.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia, from Sydney (central New South Wales) to Garden I. (SW Western Australia); D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Alonnah (southern Tasmania); rock substrate, 0–30 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2012	ADDED