Species Pentocnus bursatus O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1993

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Species Pentocnus bursatus O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1993

Pentocnus bursatus O'Loughlin, P.M. & O'Hara, T.D. 1993. New cucumariid holothurians (Echinodermata) from southern Australia, including two brooding and one fissiparous species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 53(2): 227-266, figs 1-8 pls 1-10 [Date published 1993: imprint date of 31 December 1992; available 1993] [230].
Type data:
Holotype NMV F57549, Cape Paterson, VIC.
Paratype(s) AM J22754 6 specimens; NMV F58629 juvenile, Cape Paterson, VIC; NMV F54236 1 specimen, Cape Paterson, VIC; NMV F53762 1 specimen, Cape Paterson, VIC; NMV F54181 1 specimen, Cape Paterson, VIC; NMV F59207 1 specimen, Beachport, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cape Paterson, Vic to Rottnest Is., WA. Depth range 0-4 m.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, suspension feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Amongst algal tufts.

General References

Marsh, L.M. & Pawson, D.L. 1993. Echinoderms of Rottnest Island. pp. 279-304 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 2 vols 634 pp. (as Pseudocnus sp. B)

O'Loughlin, P.M. 1991. Brooding and fission in shallow-water echinoderms of southern Australia. pp. 223-228 figs 1-5 in Yanagisawa, T., Yasumasu, I., Oguro, C., Suzuki, N. & Motokawa, T. (eds). Biology of Echinodermata. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema. [224] (as cucumariid sp.)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Vail, L.L. 1982. The distributions of Tasmanian echinoderms in relation to southern Australian biogeographic provinces. pp. 219-225 fig. 1 in Lawrence, J.M. (ed.). Echinoderms: Proceedings of the International Conference, Tampa Bay. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema. [224] (as Pseudocnus sp.)

History of changes

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