Species Myzostoma ambiguum Graff, 1887

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• Myzostoma ambiguum Graff, L. von 1887. Report on the Myzostomida collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Supplement. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 20: 1-16 [10-11].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Moluccas.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast
• Fiji
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Myzostoma ambiguum.
—Grygier, M.J. 1990. Distribution of Indo-Pacific Myzostoma and host specificity of comatulid-associated Myzostomida. Bulletin of Marine Science 47: 182–191 [184–186, 189].
—Eeckhaut, I., Grygier, M.J. & Deheyn, D. 1998. Myzostomes from Papua New Guinea, with related Indo-West Pacific distribution records and description of five new species. Bulletin of Marine Science 62(3): 841–886 [859–865, figs . 2, 15, 21, 22, 30].

Misidentifications

misidentification of Myzostomum ambiguum by Jägersten, G. 1937. Myzostomiden von Prof. Dr. Sixten Bocks Expedition nach Japan und den Bonin-Inseln 1914. Arkiv för Zoologi 29A(17): 1–37 [2–6, figs 1–6]; Kato, K. 1952. On the development of myzostomes. Science Reports of Saitama Univeristy B(Biol. & Earth Sci. 1: 1–16 pls 1–111 [2,4,10,12,15, pls 1–3]; Kato, K. 1960. 6. Tsunosuikuchimuschi Myzostomium ambiguum Graf 7. Iijimasuikuchimushi Myzostomium ijimae Hara & Okada. p. 49 in Okada, Y.K. & Uchida, T. (eds) Encyclopaedia zoologica illustrated in colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-kan Publishing Co. Ltd Vol. 4. [on Japanese] [149, pl. 74, fig. 6]; Okada, Y. & Kato, K. 1965. Sagamisuikuchimushi Protomyzostomum sagamiense Okada. 306. Tsunosuikuchimuschi Myzostomium ambiguum Graf 308. Butosuikuchimushi Myzostomum robustum Hara & Okada. p. 575 in Okada, Y.K. & Uchida, T. (eds) Encyclopaedia Zoologica Illustrated in Colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-kan Publishing Co. Ltd Vol. 1. [in Japanese] [575]; Imajima, M. 1975. Tsunosuikuchimuschi Myzostomium ambiguum Graff. In Utinomi, H. (ed.) Gakken chukosei zukan. Suisei dobutsu. (Junior and senior high school student illustrated encyclopedia. Aquatic animals) Tokyo : Gakken Co. Ltd. [in Japanese] [87, 264]; Okada, Y. & Kato, K. 1979. 702. Sagamisuikuchimushi Protomyzostomum sagamiense Okada. 306. Tsunosuikuchimuschi Myzostomium ambiguum Graff. In Uchida, T. (ed.) Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Fauna of Japan newly compiled. Tokoyo : Hokuryu-kan Publishing Co. Ltd. [in Japanese] [206]; and Imajima, M. 1983. Tsunosuikuchimuschi Myzostomium ambiguum Graff. In Utinomi, H. (ed.) Gakken Illustrated Nature Encyclopedia. (The aquatic lower animals of Japan.) Tokyo : Gakken Co. Ltd. [87, 270].

 

General References

Clark, A.H. 1921. A monograph of the existing crinoids, vol. 1. The Comatulids. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-795 [666, pl. 41, fig. 1266] (as Myzostomum ambiguum)

Zmarzly, D.L. 1985. Distribution and ecology of shallow-water crinoids (Echinodermata) in the Marshall Islands, with emphasis on their symbiotic organisms. Ph.D. Thesis. University of California, San Diego. 1-270 pp. [97, 120, 143, 145, 147] (as Myzostoma sp. 1)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Sep-2022		16-Sep-2022	MOVED
17-Oct-2023	MYZOSTOMIDAE	30-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)