WoRMS taxon details
Heterocentrotus trigonarius (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 213386
AphiaID: 213386
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family) > Heterocentrotus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Heterocentrotus Brandt, 1835 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acrocladia cuspidata A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym) Acrocladia trigonaria (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Acrocladia violacea Perrier, 1869 (subjective junior synonym) Echinometra pugionifera Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym) Echinometra trigonarius (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Echinus trigonarius Lamarck, 1816 (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Heterocentrotus taeniatus Brandt, 1835 (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): 420-425 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Clavisodalis heterocentroti Humes, 1970 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: uniformly mid brown (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Canton Island and Guam (Clark, 1954); East Indies, Phiilippine Is., China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Nicobar Is., India, Bay of Bengal (Sastry, 1997). [details] Type locality: Type locality: '?La Meéditerranée', given by Lamarck (1816) (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213386 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Heterocentrotus trigonarius (Lamarck, 1816). 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=213386 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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