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Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778) 
AphiaID: 213372

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Acroechinoidea (Infraclass) > Diadematoida (Order) > Diadematidae (Family) > Diadema (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Diadema Gray, 1825
Synonymised
taxa
  Centrechinus (Diadema) setosus (Leske, 1778) (transferred to Diadema)
Centrostephanus setosum (Leske, 1778) (transferred to Diadema)
Centrostephanus setosus (Leske, 1778) (tranferred to Diadema)
Cidaris (Diadema) tenuispina Philippi, 1845 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites diadema (Gmelin, 1788) (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema lamarcki (Gmelin, 1788) (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema nudum A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema saxatile (Linnaeus, 1758) (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema setosa (Leske, 1778) (incorrect declination of species name)
Diadema setosum f. depressa Dollfus & Roman, 1981 (infrasubspecific and unavailable according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 45.6.3)
Diadema turcarum Schynvoet, 1711 (pre-Linnean)
Echinometra setosa Rumphius, 1705 (pre-Linnean)
Echinus diadema Gmelin, 1788 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus saxatilis 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]

basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1940. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta), pp. 370. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 256-264 [details]


from synonym: Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55291#page/35/mode/1up [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lambert, J. (1923). Echinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mém. Soc. Acad. Agric. Sci. Dép. Aube 85: 13-55, 1 pl. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dollfus, R.-P. & Roman, J. 1981. Les Échinides de la mer Rouge. Ministère des Universités, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, Mémoires de la Section des Sciences 9, 1-145.
page(s): 38-39 [details] [view taxon]


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: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS[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]

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Forma Diadema setosum f. depressa Dollfus & Roman, 1981 accepted as Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aldabra (not certain[details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
Host of  Clavisodalis dilatatus Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Clavisodalis sentifer Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinirus diadematis Jacob-Judah, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinirus laxatus Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinosocius dentatus Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinosocius elatensis Jacob-Judah, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinosocius finitimus Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinosocius gulicolus Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Echinosocius pectinatus Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Senariellus diadematis Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Preherrmannella campanulipes Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Preherrmannella idonea Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (163 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (142 nucleotides; 256 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Description: Colour in life: black, red ring around anus and white spot over each genital pore (Humphreys, 1981).
One specimen with eight parastic eulimid gastropods Echineulima mittrei mittrei (Petit, 1851).
Also distributed in Saudi Arabia (Clark, 1954); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-70 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Type locality: Type locality: Amboina, Moluccas. Gray considered as author in Ludwig (1899).
D. setosa place in family 'Centrechinidae' in Kalk (1958).
According to Clark & Rowe (1971), some of the records may be interchangeable with D. savignyi.
In Rowe & Gates (1995), status and whereabouts of type specimens undetermined and type locality unknown. [details]
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Diadema setosum
Diadema setosum
added on 2010-01-19 - author: De Blauwe, Hans
qualitystatus: checked by De Blauwe, Hans on 2010-01-19 12:51:15

Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778)
Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778)
added on 2012-05-23 - author: Dr. WJ Chen & Dr. Lo, L.C. ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213372
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778). 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=213372 on 2013-05-23
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