WoRMS taxon details
Actinopyga mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
AphiaID: 208956
AphiaID: 208956
| 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 mauritiana Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 Muelleria mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] basis of record: Tortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Cherbonnier, G. (1951). Holothuries de l'Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. IRSNB Mem. 2ieme Serie, Fasc. 41. 65 pp, 28pl. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [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] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Calypsarion leprum Humes & Ho, 1969 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Scambicornus campanulipes (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Scambicornus campanulipes (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic) Preherrmannella campanulipes Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: when contracted is deep chocolate brown and creviced surface; crevices bordered with light grey border; uniformly deep brown immediately surrounding cloaca; grey below (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in 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).; India (Sastry, 1996); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Widely distributed in the tropical Indo-Pacific; from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, shallow waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder H. martensii in Pearson, 1910. [details] Remark: Sybtypes Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (3 specimens). Type locality: Mauritius, Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208956 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Actinopyga mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208956 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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