WoRMS taxon details
Parasalenia gratiosa A. Agassiz, 1863
AphiaID: 212438
AphiaID: 212438
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Parasaleniidae (Family) > Parasalenia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Parasalenia A. Agassiz, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Parasalenia arabica Lütken, 1864 (subjective junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| 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: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 269-270 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Parasalenia gratiosa boninensis Mortensen, 1930 Subspecies Parasalenia gratiosa gratiosa A. Agassiz, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Pseudanthessius pictus Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, detritus feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-70 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Distribution: Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced. Syntypes Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 1769 (1 specimen), Museum of Comparative Zoology No. 1039 (1 specimen), Museum of Comparative Zoology No. 2095 (1 specimen) (probable). Type locality: Gilbert Ils. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212438 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Parasalenia gratiosa A. Agassiz, 1863. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212438 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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