Species Petasometra helianthoides A.H. Clark, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Petasometra helianthoides Clark, A.H. 1912. The crinoids of the Natural History Museum at Hamburg. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 60(10, 2150): 1-33 [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH, South Passage, Sharks Bay, WA.
• Petasometra brevicirra 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 [36, figs 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 916, False Cape Bossut, WA.
• Petasometra variegata 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 [38, figs 3-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 917, near Shell Ils, Darwin, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, A.H. 1947. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 4b.— Superfamily Mariametrida (concluded—the family Colobometridae) and superfamily Tropiometrida (except the families Thalassometridae and Charitometridae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-473 pls 1-43 [105]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Houtman Abrolhos, WA to Darwin, NT. Depth range 0-27 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine, suspension feeder, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.H. 1947. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 4b.— Superfamily Mariametrida (concluded—the family Colobometridae) and superfamily Tropiometrida (except the families Thalassometridae and Charitometridae). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-473 pls 1-43

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 (also as Petasometra brevicirra H.L. Clark, 1938, Petrasometra variegata variegata H.L. Clark, 1938)

Marsh, L.M., Vail, L.L., Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1993. Part 6. Echinoderms of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. pp. 53-65 2 tables in Berry, P.F. (ed.). Marine faunal surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island North-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 91 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)