WoRMS taxon details
Actinopyga miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
AphiaID: 208949
AphiaID: 208949
| 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 |
Actinopyga polymorpha Saville-Kent, 1890 Holothuria miliaris Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (Basionym) Muelleria miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Pearson, J. (1914). Notes on the Holothurioidea of the Indian Ocean. II. The sub-genera Argiodia and Actinopyga. Spolia Zeylan. 9 (35): 173-190. [details] basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (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: Massin, C. (1999). Reef-dwelling Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the Spermonde Archipelago (South-West Sulawesi, Indonesia). Zoologische Verhandelingen 329, Leiden. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] 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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Comores [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Calypsarion leprum Humes & Ho, 1969 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Lecanurius kossmannianus Humes, 1968 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Scambicornus calcaratus Humes, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Scambicornus calcaratus Humes, 1975 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Scambicornus campanulipes (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Appearance in life: mid brown surface with crached appearance like dried mud, sole white sharply demarcated from brown dorsal surface (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971).; India (Sastry, 1996). General distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); tropical Inso-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-20 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Habitat: shallow waters; reef flats of fringing and lagoon-islet reefs, seagrass veds and rubble reef flats (Conand, 1998). [details] Holotype: Holotype Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (lost). Type locality: Vanikoro Is. (Santa Cruz Ils.) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Actinopygia in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208949 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Actinopyga miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208949 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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