WoRMS taxon details
Nardoa variolata (Retzius, 1805)
AphiaID: 212316
AphiaID: 212316
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Nardoa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Nardoa Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias variolata Retzius, 1805 Linckia variolata L. Agassiz, 1836 Melia variolata Gistel, 1848 Nardoa agassizi Gray, 1840 (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Scytaster variolatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| 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: Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [details] from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To Flickr | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: granules between plates mid brown, rest black, abactinal surface light grey-brown. Eaten by shrimp Hymenocera elegans (Gnathophyllidae) which sits on the aboral surface and eats the arm tips (Humphreys, 1981). General distribution: westrn Indian Ocean (Tortonese, 1980). [details] Remark: Described by Gray according to Simpson & Brown (1910), by Linck according to Ludwig (1899). In family Linckiidae in Tortonese (1980). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212316 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Nardoa variolata (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=212316 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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