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Holothuria (Acanthotrapeza) pyxis Selenka, 1867 
AphiaID: 210864

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Holothuriidae (Family) > Holothuria (Genus) > Holothuria (Acanthotrapeza) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Holothuria (Acanthotrapeza) Rowe, 1969
Parent Holothuria (Acanthotrapeza) Rowe, 1969
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E. (1969). A review of the family Holothuriidae (Holothurioidea: Aspidochirotida). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) (Zool.) 18(4): 119-170 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Kenya [details]
Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Distribution: Also distributed in Java (Selenka, 1867); Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (Sastry, 1996). [details]

Remark: Type species of the Subgenus (Acanthotrapeza) Rowe, 1969 in Rowe & Gates (1995). Rowe (1969) places H. papillata Bell, 1887 as a synonym. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210864
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-08-01 07:36:43Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2007-07-03 13:16:59Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2010-10-08 06:02:59Z  checked  Paulay, Gustav
  
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  Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Holothuria (Acanthotrapeza) pyxis Selenka, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210864 on 2013-05-24
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