Species Notopharyngoides aruensis (Remscheid, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myzostoma aruense Remscheid, E. 1918. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Myzostomiden. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 35(2): 179-226 [194-196].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (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, could not find the types), Aru Island, Indonesia.
• Myzostomum ijimai Hara, J. & Okada, Y. 1921. Two new species of Myzostoma. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 10: 33-39 [36].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.

 

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: N coast, NE coast
• Marshall Islands
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Myzostoma aruense.
—Grygier, M.J. 1990. Distribution of Indo-Pacific Myzostoma and host specificity of comatulid-associated Myzostomida. Bulletin of Marine Science 47: 182–191 [184].
—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 [880–883, figs 1, 2, 20, 29, 30].

 

General References

Jägersten, G. 1937. Myzostomiden von Prof. Dr. Sixten Bocks Expedition nach Japan und den Bonin-Inseln 1914. Arkiv för Zoologi 29A(17): 1-37 [25-26] (as Myzostomum aruense)

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, 99, 120, 143, 145, 147] (as Myzostoma sp. 2)

 

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)