Species Meridiastra nigranota O'Loughlin, 2002

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meridiastra nigranota 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 [287-289, fig. 5a-f].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F87414, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 13 Apr 1985.
  Paratype(s) NMV F87232 3 dry, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 17 Dec 1969; TMAG H1058 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 6 Jun 1969; NMV F71938 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 10 Apr 1970; NMV F87413 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 10 Apr 1970; NMV F73002 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 7 Apr 1980; NMV F72030 2 specimens, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 13 Apr 1985; NMV F71930 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 12 Dec 1985; NMV F71931 2 specimens, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 17 Feb 1990; NMV F71941 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 11 Aug 1990; NMV F87234 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 5 Oct 1991; NMV F65914 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 22 Feb 1992; NMV F87174 11 specimens, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 12 Apr 1993; NMV F87226 6 specimens, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 9 May 1993; NMV F87231 1 specimen, Victoria, Flinders, ocean platforms, shallow rocky sub-littoral, M. O’Loughlin, 12 Dec 1993.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, to Rottnest I., Western Australia; Tasmania south to Tasman Peninsula; 0–30 m

Australian Endemic.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

History of changes

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