WoRMS taxon details
Culcita schmideliana (Retzius, 1805)
AphiaID: 212295
AphiaID: 212295
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Oreasteridae (Family) > Culcita (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Culcita (Agassiz, 1836) | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias discoidea Lamarck, 1816 (Synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Asterias schmideliana Retzius, 1805 Culcita schmideliana var. africana Döderlein, 1896 Goniodiscus studeri deLoriol, 1885 (Synonym according to A.M. Clark in Clark & Rowe (1971)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: Jangoux, M. (1973). Les Astéries de lIle Inhaca (Mozambique)(Echinodermata, Asteroidea). I. les espèces récoltées et leur répartition géographique. KMMA Annalen Serie IN-8o - Zoologische wetenschappen Nr 208. 50 pp, 7 pl. [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Variety Culcita schmideliana var. africana Döderlein, 1896 accepted as Culcita schmideliana (Retzius, 1805) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Stellicola oreastriphilus Kossmann, 1877 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicomes tumidulus Humes & Cressey, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: dark grey background with small irregular pink patches mostly adjacent to black tubercles, madreporite some shade of orange being the same colour as the intertubercular areas at the arm tips. Often with carapid fish commensal in stomach, sometimes with polynoid Gastrolepidia clavigera Schmarda, 1861 and usually with commensal shrimp Periclimenes soror Nobili (Palamonidae) (Humphreys, 1981). Habitat: in algae (Tortonese, 1951). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area and Ceylon (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991). General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); western and central Indian Ocean, including Ceylon (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indian Ocean, depth range 0-92 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type locality: Type locality: unknown ("Magellan Sea"). Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212295 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Culcita schmideliana (Retzius, 1805). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212295 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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