Species Ophiactis resiliens Lyman, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ophiactis resiliens Lyman, T. 1879. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, under Prof. Sir Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. Part 2. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 6(2): 17-83, pls 11-19 [36-37, pl. 13(362-364)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1882.12.23.404, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Ophiactis nomentis Farquhar, H. 1907. Notes on New Zealand echinoderms, with description of a new species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 39: 123-130 [125-126].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mortensen, T. 1924. Echinoderms of New Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell Islands. II. Ophiuroidea. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 77: 91-177 figs 1-36 pls 3-4 [124-126, fig. 11] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, South Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, inshore, marine.

 

General References

Baker, A.N. 1979. Some Ophiuroidea from the Tasman Sea and adjacent waters. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 6: 21-51, figs 1-8 [39-40] (as Ophiactis symbiota; in part - almost certainly the 1.6 mm d.d. juvenile is O. resiliens; holotype = O. abyssicola)

Benham, W.B. 1909. Scientific results of the New Zealand Government trawling expedition 1907. Echinoderma. Records of the Canterbury Museum 1(2): 83-116 pls 7-11 [105] (as Ophiactis nomentis)

Clark, H.L. 1909. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. Thetis. Echinodermata. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(11): 519-564, pls 47-58 [539-540] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Clark, H.L. 1915. Catalogue of recent ophiurans: based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 25(4): 165-376, pls 1-20 [264, pl. 11(1-2)] (as Ophiactis nomentis)

Clark, H.L. 1916. I. Report on the sea-lilies, starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Endeavour Research 4(1): 1-123 figs 1-11 pls 1-44 [87] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Clark, H.L. 1918. Brittle–stars, old and new. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 62(6): 265-338 pls 1-8 [312] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Clark, H.L. 1928. The sea-lilies, sea-stars, brittle-stars and sea-urchins of the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3(4): 361-482 figs 108-142 [427] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. An account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 55: 1-596, figs 1-64, pls 1-28 [258-259] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [212] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Dartnall, A.J. 1980. Tasmanian Echinoderms. Fauna of Tasmania Handbook No. 3. Hobart : Fauna of Tasmania Committee 82 pp. 36 figs 5 pls. [40, 70, fig. 14] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Fell, H.B. 1952. Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 18: 1-37 [22] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Fell, H.B. 1958. Deep-sea echinoderms of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 24: 1-40, pls 1-5 [26] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Koehler, R. 1930. Ophiures recueillies par le Docteur Th. Mortensen dans les Mers d'Australie et dans l'Archipel Malais. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 89: 1-295 pls 1-22 [122-123] (as Ophiactis savignyi (in part))

Lyman, T. 1882. Ophiuroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 5: 1-385 pls 1-48 [115, pl. 20(7-9)] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Madsen, F.J. 1967. Ophiuroidea. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 B 9: 123-144, figs 1-8, pl. 1 [142] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Marsh, L.M. & Pawson, D.L. 1993. Echinoderms of Rottnest Island. Perth : Western Australian Museum 2 vols 634 pp. pp. 279-304. [286] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

McKnight, D.G. 1967. Additions to the echinoderm fauna of the Chatham Rise. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1(3): 291-313 [309] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

McKnight, D.G. 1993. Records of echinoderms (excluding holothurians) from the Norfolk Ridge and Three Kings Rise north of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 20: 165-190 [175, 187] (as Ophiactis resiliens; Unusual depth?)

Mortensen, T. 1936. Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports 12: 199-348, 53 figs, 9 pls [266] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [380] (as Ophiactis resiliens)

 

History of changes

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