Species Squamocnus aureoruber O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1993

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Species Squamocnus aureoruber O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1993

Squamocnus aureoruber O'Loughlin, P.M. & O'Hara, T.D. 1993. New cucumariid holothurians (Echinodermata) from southern Australia, including two brooding and one fissiparous species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 53(2): 227-266, figs 1-8 pls 1-10 [Date published 1993: imprint date of 31 December 1992; available 1993] [237].
Type data:
Holotype NMV F54244, Cape Paterson, VIC.
Paratype(s) NMV F54243 69 specimens, Cape Paterson, VIC; NMV F58622 1 specimen, Cape Paterson, VIC; NMV F54242 11 specimens, Apollo Bay, VIC.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Inverloch, Vic to Streaky Bay, SA and N Tas. Depth range 0-8 m.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, detritivore, suspension feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Mainly epiphytic on algae.

General References

O'Loughlin, P.M. 1991. Brooding and fission in shallow-water echinoderms of southern Australia. pp. 223-228 figs 1-5 in Yanagisawa, T., Yasumasu, I., Oguro, C., Suzuki, N. & Motokawa, T. (eds). Biology of Echinodermata. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema. [223, fig. 1] (as Trachythyone sp.)

Rowe, F.W.E. & Vail, L.L. 1982. The distributions of Tasmanian echinoderms in relation to southern Australian biogeographic provinces. pp. 219-225 fig. 1 in Lawrence, J.M. (ed.). Echinoderms: Proceedings of the International Conference, Tampa Bay. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema. [222] (part, as Trachythyone sp.)

History of changes

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Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		20-Jan-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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