Species Psolidium ravum Hickman, 1962

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psolidium ravum Hickman, V.V. 1962. Tasmanian sea-cucumbers (Holothuroidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 96: 49-72 figs 1-186 pls 1-2 [50, 60, figs 75-86, pl. 2(7)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM J7232–7235 slides of 1 specimen, Blackmans Bay and Ralphs Bay, Derwent Estuary, TAS; AM J7202 1 specimen, Ralphs Bay, Derwent Estuary, TAS.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

SE Tasmania (Derwent Estuary), Bass Strait, to W South Australia (Nuyts Archipelago); 0–15 m

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, suspension feeder, temperate.

 

General References

Dartnall, A.J. 1980. Tasmanian Echinoderms. Fauna of Tasmania Handbook No. 3. Hobart : Fauna of Tasmania Committee 82 pp. 36 figs 5 pls.

Rowe, F.W.E. 1982. Sea-cucumbers (Class Holothurioidea). 454-476-11 figs pls 29(6), 30(3-4), 31(1) in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp.

 

History of changes

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