Species Clarkcoma pulchra (H.L. Clark, 1928)
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Ophiocoma canaliculata pulchra 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 [439-440, fig. 131] [as Ophiocoma canaliculata var. pulchra].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA K241 (was E470), unknown (paratypes from Gulf St Vincent, SA).
Paratype(s) SAMA K1387 2 specimens; MCZ 4664. - Ophiocoma punctata 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 [205-208, pl. 14(2-5)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMUC 4 specimens (depository uncertain), Port Jackson, NSW.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [333-334] (as Ophiocoma pulchra)
Generic Combinations
- Clarkcoma pulchra (H.L. Clark, 1928).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Byron Bay to Eden, NSW (TOH), and Cape Jervis SA (TOH) to Dongara, WA. Depth range 0-40 m
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, marine.
General References
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 [fig. 15] (as Clarkcoma canaliculata (in part))
Marsh, L.M. 1991. Shallow water echinoderms of the Albany region, south-western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 2 pp. 439-482. [462-463] (as Clarkcoma pulchra)
Rowe, F.W.E. 1985. A review of the ophiocomin genus Clarkcoma Devaney, 1970 (Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 108(1): 59-69 figs 1-2 [64-67, fig. 1(7-8), 2(1-2)] (as Clarkcoma pulchra)
Rowe, F.W.E. & Vail, L.L. 1982. The distributions of Tasmanian echinoderms in relation to southern Australian biogeographic provinces. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema pp. 219-225 fig. 1. [223] (record from Tasmania erroneous, a misidentification of juvenile Ophiocoma canaliculata)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 22-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |