Species Protenaster australis (Gray, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Desoria australis Gray, J.E. 1851. Descriptions of new genera and species of Spatangidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 7(13): 130-134 [133].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 60.12.17.4, Flinders Island, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  McNamara, K.J. 1985. Taxonomy and evolution of the Cainozoic spatangoid echinoid Protenaster. Palaeontology 28(2): 311-339 figs 1-8 pls 32-34 [313].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, NSW to Trigg Is, WA. Depth range 0-46 m (LM) (Late Pleistocene records from Cape Burney, WA.).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Great Australian Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, inshore, temperate.

 

General References

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

McNamara, K.J. 1985. Taxonomy and evolution of the Cainozoic spatangoid echinoid Protenaster. Palaeontology 28(2): 311-339 figs 1-8 pls 32-34

 

History of changes

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