WoRMS taxon details
Holothuria (Thymiosycia) arenicola Semper, 1868
AphiaID: 210814
AphiaID: 210814
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Holothuriidae (Family) > Holothuria (Genus) > Holothuria (Thymiosycia) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Holothuria (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Holothuria brandtii Selenka, 1867 Holothuria humilis Selenka, 1867 Holothuria monsuni Heding, 1939 Sporadipus (Acolpos) maculatus Brandt, 1835 Thymiosycia arenicola Semper | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Semper, C. (1868). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band. Holothurien. Hefte iv. and v: Unpaginated. [details] 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: 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: Pearson, J. (1913). Notes on the Holothurioidea of the Indian Ocean. I. The genus Holothuria. Spolia Zeylan. 9 (34): 49-101 [details] additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] from synonym: Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Heding, S. G. (1939). The Holothurians collected during the cruises of the M/S Monsunen in the tropical Pacific in 1934. Vidensk. Medd. naturh. Foren. Kjob 102: pp. 213-222. [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 Holothuria (Thymiosycia) arenicola boutani Hérouard, 1893 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Eritrea [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Diogenella deichmannae Humes & Ho, 1970 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Diogenella impar Humes & Ho, 1970 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Diogenella seticauda Stock, 1968 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Diogenidium deforme Stock, 1968 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Nanaspis truncata Stock, Humes & Gooding, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Nanaspis truncata Stock, Humes & Gooding, 1962 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: General distribution: almost circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, circumtropical, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also distributed in Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Rowe (1969) treats H. monsuni Heding, 1939 as a synonym. Syntype in Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2508. Type locality: ?Viti Levu, Fiji (as 'Fidschi (Viti) Inseln') (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210814 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Holothuria (Thymiosycia) arenicola Semper, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210814 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||||||||
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