Species Rhynobrissus macropetalus H.L. Clark, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhynobrissus macropetalus 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 [434, pl. 28(8-9)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 7264, Broome, WA.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Roebuck Bay to Broome. Littoral waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, inshore, 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

McNamara, K.J. 1982. A new species of the echinoid Rhynobrissus (Spatangoida: Brissidae) from north-west Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9(4): 349-360 figs 1-5 (questions placement in Rhynobrissus Agassiz, 1872, a closer relationship being to Metalia Gray, 1855)

Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (2). Spatangoida. II. Amphisternata II, Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 593 pp. 286 figs 64 pls. (as Rhinobrissus macropetalus H.L. Clark, 1938)

 

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)