WoRMS taxon details
Clypeaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 213362
AphiaID: 213362
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Neognathostomata (Superorder) > Clypeasteroida (Order) > Clypeasterina (Suborder) > Clypeasteridae (Family) > Clypeaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Clypeaster Lamarck, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Clypeaster (Rhaphidoclypus) reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (subgeneric subdivision of Clypeaster not accepted by scientific community) Clypeaster scutiforme Lamarck, 1816 (unjustified emendation) Clypeaster scutiformis Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Echinanthus coleae Gray, 1851 (subjective junior synonym) Echinanthus oblongus Gray, 1851 (subjective junior synonym) Echinodiscus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (subjective junior synonym) Echinus reticulatus Linnaeus, 1758 (tranferred to Clypeaster) Lagana ovalis Blainville, 1834 (subjective junior synonym) Laganum scutiforme (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym) Rhaphidoclypus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (subjective junior synonym) Scutella reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (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: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] redescription: Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ, pp. 471. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 71-76 [details] basis of record (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] original description (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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Clypeaster reticulatus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Clypeaster reticulatus sundaicus Mortensen, 1948 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in Marshall Islands (Clark, 1954); 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 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-125 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Remark: In Subgenus (Rhaphidoclypus) A. Agassiz, 1863. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'Oceano Americano' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213362 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Clypeaster reticulatus (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=213362 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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