WoRMS taxon details
Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus Semper, 1868
AphiaID: 210852
AphiaID: 210852
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Holothuriidae (Family) > Holothuria (Genus) > Holothuria (Selenkothuria) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Holothuria (Selenkothuria) Deichmann, 1958 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868 Holothuria andersoni Bell, 1886 Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] from synonym: Bell, FJ., 1886. On the holothurians of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the trustees of the Indian Museum by Dr. John Anderson. Journal Linnean Society London. 21: 25-28. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ludwig, H.L. (1883). Verszeichniss der Holothurien des Kiehler Museums. Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur-und Heilkunde 4 (10). [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868 accepted as Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus Semper, 1868 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Somalia [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Description: body rather narrower in its anterior half. Uniformly brown, but a clear ring is around the small buccal tentacles, which form a group 7 mm wide. Podia crowded on the belly, much smaller and scattered on the back, where the skin is much folded. Spicules are only rods, generally more elongated that those figured by Semper. A median axis is apparent and may be somewhat recurved. Shape very variable, surface smooth, edge more or less spiny, holes restricted at the extremities or arranged in a series along one or both sides of the axis. The larger rods are like perforated plates, the smaller may remind buttons. No true buttons or tables have been observed (Tortonese, 1980). General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, shoreline waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Rowe (1969) regards H. lubrica var. marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883 as a synonym of H. erinaceus. Spelled H. erinaceus in Tortonese (1980) and Clark & Rowe (1971). Syntypes Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2551. Type locality: Fiji (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210852 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus Semper, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210852 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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