Bollonaster pectinatus
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Fast Facts
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Classification
- Genus
- Bollonaster
- Species
- pectinatus
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- Size Range
- Width 60 mm
Identification:
Flattened with five relatively straight sided arms tapering to acute points giving a distinct star shape. The arms are fringed with a comb-like array of sharp spines along the length of their margin. Superomarginal plate spines relatively small; inferomarginal spines subequal, in clusters of three to five. Aboral surface pale pink.
Distribution:
Temperate inshore and continental shelf areas, from Crowdy Head, NSW, south to Tasmania and west to City Beach, WA. Depth range 9-280 m.
Australian Museum registration database records for the Sydney region:
Port Jackson; 37 km east of Port Jackson; off Coogee; Malabar; east of Malabar. 1.5km off Botany Bay; east of Cronulla; Jibbon, near Conulla; Port Hacking (Gunnamatta Bay; Shiprock near Caringbah). Depth range 42-366 m.
Habitat:
Sand, silt.
Taxonomic information - synonyms and type material:
Astropecten pectinatus Sladen, 1883: 251.
Type data: syntypes BMNH 1890.5.7.220-4.
Type locality: Port Jackson, NSW, Bass Strait, Port Phillip, VIC, and South Australia.
Astropecten schayeri Döderlein, 1917: 46, 60, pls 1(1), 7(1-1c).
Type data: holotype ZMB 802.
Type locality: Tasmania.
Astropecten syntomus Clark, 1928: 372, fig. 110.
Type data: holotype SAMA K45.
Type locality: not stated, presumably SA.
Bollonaster pectinatus
Image: Stephen Keeble© Australian Museum
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Additional references:
Clark (1946) (also as Astropecten schayeri, Astropecten syntomus); John (1948) (as Astropecten pectinatus); Shepherd (1968) (as Astropecten pectinatus); Edgar (1997).
