Species Peronella lesueuri (Valenciennes, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Laganum lesueuri Valenciennes, A. 1841. Echinites. Famille des Clypéastroides. II. Des Scutelles. 1-151 pls 1-27 in Agassiz, L. (ed.). Monographie d'Echinodermes vivants et fossiles. Neuchâtel : unknown. [Species description] [116, pl. 24(3-6)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP EcEs7481, Australia (terres australe); MNHP EcEs7822, Philippines (Guadeloupe).
• Peronella aphnostina 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 [167, pl. 24].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM Z1881 (specimen lost), Carnac Is, Freemantle, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mortensen, T. 1918. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. XXI. Echinoidea. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 58(9): 1-22 pls 1-5

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Esperance, WA to Hervey Bay, Qld; Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-70 m, Upper Miocene to Pleistocene deposits from the East Indies and Cainozoic deposits from the East Indies and from Western Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, SW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, deposit feeder, inshore, temperate, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls.

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

Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (2). Clypeastroida. Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Fibulariidae, Laganidae and Scutellidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 471 pp. 258 figs 72 pls.

Rowe, F.W.E. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] [225] (contrary to Mortensen (op. cit.), K.J. McNamara (pers. comm.) has concluded that Laganum decagonale rictum Gregory, 1892 is not conspecific with Peronella lesueuri (Valenciennes, 1841))

 

History of changes

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