Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909) 
AphiaID: 214611

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Gorgonocephalidae (Family) > Astrothorax (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Astrothorax Döderlein, 1911
Synonymised taxa		Astrocrius waitei (Benham, 1909) (synonym) Astrothamnus furtivus Koehler, 1930 Astrothamnus papillatus H.L. Clark, 1923 Astrothamnus rugosus H.L. Clark, 1916 Astrothorax furtivus (Koehler, 1930) Astrothorax papillata (H.L. Clark, 1923) Astrotoma waitei Benham, 1909
Sources		basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400.  [details] source of synonymy: Baker, A.N. (1980). Euryalinid Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Australia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 7(1) 1980: 11-83. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 30 [details] from synonym: Clark, H.L. 1923. Echinoderms from Lower California, with descriptions of new species: supplementary report. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 48(6), 147-163. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Stöhr Sabine (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Benham, W.B. 1909. Echinoderma (Science reports N.Z. Government Trawling Expedition). Records of the Canterbury Museum, 1(2), 83-116. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Koehler, R. 1930. Ophiures recueillies par le Docteur Th. Mortensen dans les Mers d’Australie et dans l’Archipel Malais. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition 1914-16. LIV. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening, 89, 1-295, 22 pl. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, H.L. 1916. I. Report on the sea-lilies. starfishes, brittle-stars and sea-urchins obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Biological Results of the Fishing experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914, 4(1), 1-123. [details] [view taxon] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links		To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes		Distribution: General distribution: temperate, southwest Pacific and South Africa, depth range 73-1005 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also recorded in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Remark: Syntypes Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (New Zealand) (3 specimens). Type locality: east coast of Otago, New Zealand (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214611
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2000-09-19 07:15:44Z   created   Garcia, Maria 2007-07-18 12:17:12Z   checked   Stöhr, Sabine
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		Citation: Stöhr, S. (2013). Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909). In: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: Stöhr, S. & O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013) World Ophiuroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/ophiuroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214611 on 2013-05-25