WoRMS taxon details
Astrothorax waitei (Benham, 1909)
AphiaID: 214611
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 (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
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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: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214611 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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