Species Ophiocoma endeani Rowe & Pawson, 1977
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Ophiocoma endeani Rowe, F.W.E. & Pawson, D.L. 1977. A catalogue of echinoderm type-specimens in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 30(14): 337-364 [349] [replacement name; nom. nov. for Ophiocoma alternans Endean, 1964].
- Ophiocoma alternata Endean, R.H. 1963. A new species of brittle-star (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from northern New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 88(3): 295-297, fig. 1, pl. 17 [295, pl. 17(1)] [junior homonym; junior homonym of Ophiocoma alternans von Martens, 1870 = Ophiocoma scolopendrina Clark, 1921].
Type data:
Holotype AM J7344, Hastings Point, northern NSW.
Paratype(s) AM J7345 23 specimens, Hastings Point, northern NSW.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific, South Pacific
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine.
General References
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 [328] (as Ophiocoma brevipes; misidentified as O. brevipes)
Devaney, D.M. 1970. Studies on ophiocomid brittlestars. I. A new genus (Clarkcoma) of Ophiocominae with a reevaluation of the genus Ophiocoma. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 51: 1-41 figs 1-50 [34, 37] (as Ophiocoma alternans; notes it needs a new name)
History of changes
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 22-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |