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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus variegatus Semper, 1868 
AphiaID: 210905

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEchinodermata (Phylum) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEchinozoa (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHolothuroidea (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAspidochirotida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopodidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus horrens Selenka, 1867
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus Brandt, 1835
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHolothuria 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]

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Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus variegatus var. trepangi Domantay, 1936 (nomen nudum, Stichopus unidentifiable)

Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus variegatus hermanni Semper, 1868 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus herrmanni Semper, 1868
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus variegatus var. herrmanni Semper, 1868 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus herrmanni Semper, 1868
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus variegatus var. pallidus Clark, 1938 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStichopus naso Semper, 1868
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAldabra [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMascarene Basin [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorWest Indian Ocean [details]
Kenya
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorKenya (inaccurate) [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [details]
Red Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRed Sea [details]
Seychelles
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSeychelles [details]
South Africa
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSouth Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast Africa [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNanaspis boholensis Humes, 1980 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNanaspis boholensis Humes, 1980 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNanaspis tonsa Humes & Cressey, 1959 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorScambicornus retrospiculus Humes, 1980 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorScambicornus retrospiculus Humes, 1980 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorScambicornus modestus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPreherrmannella modesta Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Marine Species Identification Portal 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection 
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDescription 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]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorRemark 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
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 11:53:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-10-14 13:58:07Z  changed  Paulay, Gustav
  
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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 2014-03-11
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