World Echinoidea Database - Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 212453

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Toxopneustidae (Family) > Tripneustes (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Tripneustes L. Agassiz, 1841b

Synonymised
taxa

Sources

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]

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: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ, pp. vii+553. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 500-508 [details]

additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 555 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bell, F.J. (1884). Echinodermata. In: R.W. Coppinger (ed): Report on the Zoological Collections made in the indo-pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS Alert, 1881-2. London. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	Bischofsmützenseeigel	[details]
English	collector urchin	[details]
English	Parson's hat sea urchin	[details]
German	Gift-Seeigel	[details]
German	Pfaffenhut-Seeigel	[details]

Direct child
taxa
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Subspecies Tripneustes gratilla elatensis Dafni, 1983
Subspecies Tripneustes gratilla gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Distribution

Aldabra [details]
Cape Howe [details]
Chagos [details]
Dahab [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Marsa Shagra [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Northeastern New Zealand [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
South New Zealand (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]

Host of

Mecomerinx sewellana Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Senariellus latiseta Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)

Links

To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (220 nucleotides; 222 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection

Attribute

Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: larva

Notes

Description: Colour in life: spines white, surface dark brown in ambulacral and interambulacral areas except along rows of tube feet where it appears mid brown. Primary spines normally inclined radially towards adjacent ambulacrum leaving clear test surface over most inter-ambulacrum giving the general appearance of a pentaradiate brown cross (Humphreys, 1981). Habitat: algae (Tortonese, 1951).
Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, Solomon Islands, Seleo Island, Netherlands New Guinea, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Hasikaya Island (Kuria Muria Islands) (Herring, 1972); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); India (Lakshadweep, Tamilnadu, Andaman and Nicobar Is.)(Sastry, 1996).
; East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family 'Echinidae' in Kalk (1958). [details]

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212453

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z	created	Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z	changed	Garcia, Maria
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z	changed	Kroh, Andreas

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Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212453 on 2013-05-23

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