Species Ophiocoma occidentalis H.L. Clark, 1938
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Ophiocoma occidentalis 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 [334-337, pl. 25(1)].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ 5239, Cape Peron, WA.
Paratype(s) MCZ 5241–5242 18 specimens; MCZ 5245–5246 14 specimens; WAM Z1967 1 specimen (old number: 270-39), Cape Peron, WA; WAM Z1968 1 specimen (old number: 271-39), Cape Peron, WA; AM J6216 3 specimens, Point Peron, WA.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific, South Pacific
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Western Province (6)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine.
General References
Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [245] (as Ophiocoma occidentalis)
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 occidentalis)
Marsh, L.M. & Pawson, D.L. 1993. Echinoderms of Rottnest Island. Perth : Western Australian Museum 2 vols 634 pp. pp. 279-304. [283] (as Ophiocoma occidentalis)
Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33 Echinodermata. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia 510 pp. [387] (as Ophiocoma occidentalis)
History of changes
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