Species Myzostoma fissum Graff, 1884

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• Myzostoma fissum Graff, L. von 1884. Report on the Myzostomida collected during the voyage of H.M. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 10: 1-82 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 89.11.8.16, Kandavu Island, Fiji.
• Myzostoma striata George, A.I. 1943. On an undescribed species of Myzostoma from the Madras Harbour, with a note on the occurrence of Myzostoma adhaerens. Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress 29(3): 150 [150].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, India.
• Myzostomum quadrilobatum Fishelson, L. 1974. Ecology of the northern Red Sea crinoids and their epi- and endozoic fauna. Marine Biology, Berlin 26: 183-192 [189].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

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 Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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: Central E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast
• Fiji
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• India
  • Kerala
• Vietnam

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Myzostoma fissum.
—Graff, L.v. 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, Zoology 20: 1–16 [6, pl. 1, figs 5–6].
—Grygier, M.J. 1990. Distribution of Indo-Pacific Myzostoma and host specificity of comatulid-associated Myzostomida. Bulletin of Marine Science 47: 182–191 [182–184, 189–190].
—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 [865–870, figs 2, 16, 23, 24, 30].

Myzostoma striata.
—[George, 1950]: 215,220, figs 1–5, pl. 5 fig. 1.
—Rao, K.H. & Sowbhagyavathi, R. 1972. Observations on the associates of crinoids at Waltair Coast with special reference to myzostomes. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science B 38: 360–366 [360–362, fig. 12.]

Myzostomum quadrilobatum.
—Fishelson, L. 1976. Ecology of the crinoids of the northern Red Sea with emphasis on epi- and endozoic fauna associated with them. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 15(2): 461–473[468, fig. 7a.]

 

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 [667] (as Myzostomum fissum)

 

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)