WoRMS taxon details
Actinopyga obesa (Selenka, 1867)
AphiaID: 208945
AphiaID: 208945
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Holothuriidae (Family) > Actinopyga (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Actinopyga Bronn, 1860 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Holothuria rugosa Saville-Kent, 1890 Muelleria obesa Selenka, 1867 Mulleria obesa Selenka, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Samyn, Y.; Vandenspiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). A new Indo-West Pacific species of Actinopyga (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae). Zootaxa 1138: 53-68. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Saville Kent, W., 1890. Bêche-de-mer and pearl-shell fisheries of northern Queensland. Queensland Government Publisher, Brisbane. 8 pps. 2 pls. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Selenka, E. (1867). Beitrage zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien. Der Philosophischen Facultat zu Gottingen in December 1866, als Dissertation vorgelegt.: pp. 291-374. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Actinopyga obesa palauensis Panning, 1944 accepted as Actinopyga palauensis Panning, 1944 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Also distributed in Philippine, China, south Japan and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Pacific, depth range 0-20 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Holotype: Holotype Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA) No. 820. Type locality: Hawaiian Ils (as 'Sandwich Inseln') (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208945 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Actinopyga obesa (Selenka, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208945 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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