Species Microcyphus maculatus L. Agassiz, 1846

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Regional Maps

• Microcyphus maculatus Agassiz, L. 1846. [Genus and species descriptions]. pp. 305-374 in Agassiz, L. & Desor, E. Catalogue raisonné des familles des genres et des espèces de la Classe de Echinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 3 6: 325-374 [358].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP EcEs7787, uncertain, possibly Mauritius.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Heron Is.Qld; Mauritius, Indian Ocean. Depth range 0-3 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, 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.

Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (2). Camarodonta I. Orthopsidae, Glyphocyphidae, Temnopleuridae and Toxopneustidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 553 pp. 321 figs 56 pls. [155] (regards all records of Microcyphus maculatus L. Agassiz, 1846 (except Mauritius) as uncertain)

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] (re-examined material (in AM) from Heron Is. and believes uncertainties op. cit. may be unfounded; this species may be widespread in the Indo-west Pacific Ocean)

Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. The Echini of Australia (including those of the Chevert Expedition). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 145-176 [160] (mentions specimen '...which was said to come from the coast of N.S. Wales...')

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Feb-2012		17-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)