Species Pontiometra andersoni (Carpenter, 1889)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antedon andersoni Carpenter, P.H. 1889. Report on the Comatulae of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. J. Anderson. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 21(133): 304-316 pls 26-27 [304, 306, pls 26(1-5), 27(8)].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM (depository uncertain), King Is., Mergui Archipelago, Burma.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pontiometra andersoni (Carpenter, 1889).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Monte Bello Islands to off Eighty Mile Beach, WA and from Black Island, near Hayman Island, QLD; east Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-73 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, 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.

 

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)