Species Pentagonaster duebeni Gray, 1847

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pentagonaster dübeni Gray, J.E. 1847. 2. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asteriadae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 12: 72-83 [79].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1846.6.7.27, 'W Australia'.

  Type locality references:

  Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [88].
• Astrogonium crassimanum Möbius, K. 1859. Neue Seesterne des Hamburger und Kieler Museums. Hamburg : Nolte & Köhler 14 pp. 4 pls. [9, pl. 2(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (whereabouts undetermined), 'E Indies'.
• Pentagonaster stibarus Clark, H.L. 1914. The echinoderms of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 1(3): 132-173 fig. 1 pls 17-26 [136, pl. 17].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM Z1743 (larger of the two specimens; old number: 4916), between Fremantle and Geraldton, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 1744 1 specimen (old number: 4916), between Fremantle and Geraldton, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 [89]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

S Qld to Shark Bay, WA. Depth range 0-160 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, marine, temperate.

 

General References

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Pentagonaster crassimanus (Möbius, 1859))

Marsh, L.M. 1991. Shallow water echinoderms of the Albany region, south-western Australia. pp. 439-482 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 2 722 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		04-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)