WoRMS taxon details
Stichopus variegatus Semper, 1868
AphiaID: 210905
AphiaID: 210905
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Stichopodidae (Family) > Stichopus (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Stichopus horrens Selenka, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Stichopus Brandt, 1835 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Holothuria lutea Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Semper, C. (1868). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band. Holothurien. Hefte iv. and v: Unpaginated. [details] source of synonymy: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Stichopus variegatus var. trepangi Domantay, 1936 (nomen nudum) Subspecies Stichopus variegatus hermanni Semper, 1868 accepted as Stichopus herrmanni Semper, 1868 Variety Stichopus variegatus var. herrmanni Semper, 1868 accepted as Stichopus herrmanni Semper, 1868 Variety Stichopus variegatus var. pallidus Clark, 1938 accepted as Stichopus naso Semper, 1868 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya (not valid) [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Nanaspis boholensis Humes, 1980 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nanaspis boholensis Humes, 1980 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Nanaspis tonsa Humes & Cressey, 1959 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Scambicornus retrospiculus Humes, 1980 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Scambicornus retrospiculus Humes, 1980 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Scambicornus modestus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic) Preherrmannella modesta Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: grey-green with deep, mostly transverse, folding above, below pinkish overall most obviously between three longitudinal bands of tube feet (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed around the Pacific and the Indian Ocean (Lampert, 1909); N.E. Africa (Heding, 1940); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971). Widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific, excluding the Persian Gulf and Hawaii (Conand, 1998); throughout the Indo-west Pacific region except W India, Pakistan and Hawaii (Thandar, 1987). Habitat: sand, mud, rock or coral (Thandar, 1987). [details] Remark: In most of the literature before 1995 S. herrmanni is cited as S. variegatus Semper, 1868, a name no longer valid. The specimens formerly identified as S. variegatus are either S. herrmanni or S. monotuberculatus. In Rowe & Gates (1995): "several missing specimens in the syntype series of Stichopus variegatus are herein re-identified from Semper's description as Stichopus monotuberculatus. But lectotipification puts Stichopus variegatus with S. horrens". Lectotype Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2716. Type locality: Samoa (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210905 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Stichopus variegatus Semper, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210905 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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