Ashmore
and Cartier
Islands are a territory of Australia
and an
overview of the biodiversity of the islands can be found
in
the Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Islands Marine
Reserve Management Plans (environment.gov.au).
Marine fishes known
only from near Ashmore Reef include the Ashmore Jawfish Opistognathus asper
(Fishes
of Australia) (p. 140 of Zootaxa
pdf) and a false moray Chlopsis
sagmacollaris (GBIF).
The Ashmore and
Cartier Islands are the only known locality for several sponge shrimps: Periclimenaeus matherae
and Periclimenaeus
kottae(both at BHL),
Periclimenaeus
ancylodactylus and Periclimenaeus
forcipulatus (both at Brill),
and Nippontonia
ashmoreiensis (GBIF).
Other endemic invertebrates include a crinoid
shrimp Laomenes
albonigrus (GBIF),
an amphipod crustacean Quadrisegmentum
triangularum (Semantic
Scholar), and the
marine
molluscs: Amoria
spenceriana (Eddie
Hardy), Conus
morrisoni (Eddie
Hardy),
Tudivasum chaneyi
and Tudivasum ashmorense
(both at Oxford),
and Cymbiola baili
(figs. 10-11 at BHL)
(figs. 29-30 at Academia).