Species Moira lethe Mortensen, 1930

Museums

Regional Maps

• Moira lethe Mortensen, T. 1930. Some new Japanese echinoids. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 12(2): 387-404 figs 1-2 pls 1-4 [392, pl. 3(1-4)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Japan.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

From Bowen, Qld, to Albany and Broome, WA. Littoral waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), 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

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Australian Bight, Lower E coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, inshore, temperate, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (erroneously listed as Moira stygia A. Agassiz, 1872)

McNamara, K.J. & Philip, G.M. 1980. Living Australian schizasterid echinoids. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 104(2): 127-146 figs 1-13

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.

 

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)