WoRMS taxon details
Echinostrephus molaris (Blainville, 1825)
AphiaID: 213384
AphiaID: 213384
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family) > Echinostrephus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Echinostrephus A. Agassiz, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echinostrephus molare (Blainville, 1825) (incorrect declination of species name) Echinostrephus pentagonus Yoshiwara, 1898 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus laganoides L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus lezaroides Perrier, 1869 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus mola Blainville, 1825 (incorrect subsequent spelling) Echinus molaris Blainville, 1825 Psammechinus laganoides (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (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, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 311-316 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Habitat: deep rounded vertical burrows in dead coral rocks (Sastry, 1997). Also distributed in SE Arabia, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997). General distribution: East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-50 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) EcEs7876. Type locality: unknown [historical specimen from Aden] (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213384 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinostrephus molaris (Blainville, 1825). 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=213384 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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