WoRMS taxon details
Polyplectana kefersteinii (Selenka, 1867)
AphiaID: 214608
AphiaID: 214608
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Apodida (Order) > Synaptidae (Family) > Polyplectana (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Polyplectana Clark, 1908 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Synapta kefersteinii Selenka, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] from synonym: Selenka, E. (1867). Beitrage zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien. Der Philosophischen Facultat zu Gottingen in December 1866, als Dissertation vorgelegt.: pp. 291-374. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Synapticola teres Voigt, 1892 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Synapticola teres Voigt, 1892 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: This species in known from the East Indies, north Australia, Philippines, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Red Sea and Aldabra to Easter Island and from China to New Caledonia (Massin, 1996). Ecology: benthic, continental shelf, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995); during day hides in crevices, at night foraging on the substrate (Massin, 1996). General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Paacific Ocean, depth range 0-77 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Syntypes Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 415 (6 specimens). Type locality: Hawaiian Islands (as Sandwich Inseln) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). P. kefersteini in Tortonese (1977) and Clark & Rowe (1971). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214608 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Polyplectana kefersteinii (Selenka, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214608 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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