Clarkcoma australis

Familia: Clarkcomidae
Genus: Clarkcoma
Species: Clarkcoma australis

Clarkcoma australis (H.L. Clark, 1928)

• Original combination: Ophiocomina australis H.L. Clark, 1928

• ZooBank: CCBD0E3D-90E3-450D-BBB9-B1FBC2A9B0D6

• Type locality: South Australia, Spencer or Sy. Vincent Gulf.

• Holotype: SAMA K209 [1].

• Paratypes: MCZ:IZ:OPH-4634 [2]; MCZ:IZ:OPH-4788 [3]; SAMA K210 [4]; SAMA K211 [5]; SAMA K1386 [6].

• Ophiocomina australis H.L. Clark, 1928: 422–425, fig. 124; — Cotton & Godfrey, 1942: 210; — H.L. Clark, 1946: 188.
• Clarkcoma australis (H.L. Clark, 1928) Naughton et al., 2014: 241.

• Clark, H.L. 1928. The sea-lilies, sea-stars, brittle-stars and sea-urchins of the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum 3(4): 361–482. BHL Reference page. 
• Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. No. 566: 1-567. BHL Reference page. 
• Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1942. Echinodermata of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 7: 193–234. BHL. Reference page. 
• Naughton, K.M., O’Hara, T.D., Appleton, B., Cisternas, P.A. 2014. Antitropical distributions and species delimitation in a group of ophiocomid brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiocomidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 232–124446. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.020 . Reference page. 

• Clarkcoma australis (H.L. Clark, 1928) in the World Ophiuroidea Database, accessed on August 18, 2025