WoRMS taxon details
Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 212453
AphiaID: 212453
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Toxopneustidae (Family) > Tripneustes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tripneustes L. Agassiz, 1841b | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cidaris angulosa Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym) Cidaris variegata Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus (Tripneustes) sardica (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (subjective junior synonym) Echinus fasciatus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus gratilla Linnaeus, 1758 (transferred to Tripneustes) Echinus inflatus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus pentagonus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus peronii Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus subcaeruleus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus variegatus (Leske, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Echinus virgatus Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym) Hipponoe nigricans A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym) Hipponoe sardica (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (subjective junior synonym) Hipponoe variegata (Leske, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Hipponoe violacea A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes (Hipponoe) variegasta (Leske, 1778) (misspelling for Tripneustes variegata) Tripneustes (Hipponoe) variegasta (Klein, 1734) (pre-Linnean) Tripneustes angulosus (Leske, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes bicolor Perrier, 1869 (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes fuscus Michelin, 1862 (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes grabella (misspelling ?) Tripneustes lorioli Lambert & Thiéry, 1914 (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes pentagonus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes sardicus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes subcaeruleus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes variegatus (Leske, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Tripneustes zigzag Michelin, 1862 (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: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ, pp. vii+553. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 500-508 [details] additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 555 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Bell, F.J. (1884). Echinodermata. In: R.W. Coppinger (ed): Report on the Zoological Collections made in the indo-pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS Alert, 1881-2. London. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Tripneustes gratilla elatensis Dafni, 1983 Subspecies Tripneustes gratilla gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cape Howe [details] Chagos [details] Dahab [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Kisite Marine National Park [details] Madagascar [details] Marsa Shagra [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mombasa [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Northeastern New Zealand [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] South New Zealand (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details] Watamu [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Mecomerinx sewellana Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Senariellus latiseta Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (220 nucleotides; 222 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: spines white, surface dark brown in ambulacral and interambulacral areas except along rows of tube feet where it appears mid brown. Primary spines normally inclined radially towards adjacent ambulacrum leaving clear test surface over most inter-ambulacrum giving the general appearance of a pentaradiate brown cross (Humphreys, 1981). Habitat: algae (Tortonese, 1951). Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, Solomon Islands, Seleo Island, Netherlands New Guinea, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Hasikaya Island (Kuria Muria Islands) (Herring, 1972); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); India (Lakshadweep, Tamilnadu, Andaman and Nicobar Is.)(Sastry, 1996). ; East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family 'Echinidae' in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212453 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=212453 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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