Species Smilasterias multipara O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1990

Museums

Smilasterias multipara O'Loughlin, P.M. & O'Hara, T.D. 1990. A review of the genus Smilasterias (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), with descriptions of two new species from south-eastern Australia, one a gastric brooder, and a new species from Macquarie Island. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50(2): 307-323 3 figs 1 pl. [311].
Type data:
Holotype NMV F53036, Flinders, VIC.
Paratype(s) NMV F53030 3 specimens, Flinders, VIC; NMV F53033 8 specimens, Flinders, VIC; NMV F53037 1 specimen, Flinders, VIC; BMNH 1986.10.1.1-5 5 specimens; AM J20199 5 specimens; NMV F53011 12 specimens, Cape Bridgewater, VIC; SAMA K1760 5 specimens; WAM Z1721 5 specimens (old number: 428-86), Flinders, Vic; NMV F53027 1 brooding, Greens Head, TAS; NMV F53035 3 specimens, 1 brooding, Lulworth, TAS; TMH 1546 2 specimens, brooding.

Tasmania, Victoria

Walkerville to Cape Bridgewater, Vic, Bass Strait Islands, West Point to Bruny Is., Tas. Depth range 0-3 m

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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

Benthic, inshore, marine, temperate.

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 [195] (identified with reservation as Smilasterias irregularis H.L. Clark, 1928, with the comment that the specimen before him from San Remo (VIC) may represent a second species of Smilasterias)

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2012		11-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)