Species Phyllophorella spiculata (Chang, 1935)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phyllophorus spiculata Chang, F-Y. 1935. Additions to the holothurians of the China coast. Contributions from the Institute of Zoology. Natlional Academy of Peiping 2(3): 1-18 figs 1-10 [8, figs 6-8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NAP, Amoy, China.
• Phyllophorus parvipedes 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 [489, fig. 47].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM J6041, Broome, WA.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 1647.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] (following re-examination of type specimens of Phyllophorus parvipedes Clark, 1938 and comparison with description of Phyllophorus spiculata Chang, 1935)

 

Generic Combinations

• Phyllophorella spiculata (Chang, 1935).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Sweers Is. and Bowen, Qld and Broome, WA; eastern Indian Ocean, West Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-9 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, suspension feeder, tropical.

 

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 Phyllophorus parvipedes H.L. Clark, 1938)

James, D.B. 1967. Phyllophorus (Phyllophorella) parvipedes Clark (Holothuroidea), a new record to the Indian Seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 7(2): 325-327

 

History of changes

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