Species Tosia australis Gray, 1840
- Tosia australis Gray, J.E. 1840. A synopsis of the genera and species of the Class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History ns 6: 175-184, 275-290 [281].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1843.3.10.26, Swan River, WA.Type locality references:
Gray, J.E. 1847. 2. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asteriadae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 12: 72-83. - Astrogonium astrologorum Müller, J. & Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. Braunschweig : Papier, Druck und Verlag 134 pp. 12 pls. [54].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as 'Neu Holland'). - Astrogonium nobile Müller, J. & Troschel, F.H. 1843. 1. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Asteriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 9(1): 113-131 [116].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB, southwest Australia (as Südwestliches Neuholland). - Tosia tubercularis Gray, J.E. 1847. 2. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asteriadae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 12: 72-83 [80].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1846.8.14.3, 4, Swan River, WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Ludwig, H. 1912. Über die J.E. Gray'schen Gattungen Pentagonaster und Tosia. Zoologische Jahrbücher 15(1): 1-44 [23]
- Naughton, K.M. & O'Hara, T.D. 2009. A new brooding species of the biscuit star Tosia (Echinodermata : Asteroidea : Goniasteridae), distinguished by molecular, morphological and larval characters. Invertebrate Systematics 23: 348-366
Generic Combinations
- Tosia nobilis (Müller & Troschel, 1843).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Off Ninety-mile beach Vic and Tas to Kalbarri, WA. Depth range 0-40 m
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Province (12), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, inshore, marine, temperate.
General References
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 (Astrogonium astrologorum Müller & Troschel, regarded by some authors as form of Tosia australis Gray, 1840)
Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567
History of changes
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