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Actinopyga serratidens Pearson, 1903 
AphiaID: 208955

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
Sources  original description: Pearson, J. (1903). Report on the Holothurioidea collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Rep. on Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries Pt. I: pp. 181-208. [details]

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]

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Subspecies Actinopyga serratidens banwarthi Panning, 1944 accepted as Actinopyga banwarthi (Panning, 1944)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Red Sea [details]
Specimen  Holotype: CMS , locality Sri Lanka (lagoon inside the Reef, Galle) [details]
Host of  Scambicornus calcaratus Humes, 1975 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Description: Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies and Philippine (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-5 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208955
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 11:53:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-22 07:17:05Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-10-14 14:03:44Z  checked  Paulay, Gustav
  
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  Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Actinopyga serratidens Pearson, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208955 on 2013-05-23
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