WoRMS taxon details
Schizaster lacunosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 214662
AphiaID: 214662
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Paleopneustina (Suborder) > Schizasteridae (Family) > Schizaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Schizaster L. Agassiz, 1835 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Brisaster lacunosus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Schizaster) Echinus lacunosus Linnaeus, 1758 Micraster lacunosus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Schizaster) Schizaster japonicus A. Agassiz, 1879 (subjective junior synonym) Schizaster ventricosus Gray, 1851 (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. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 300-303 [details] 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: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Red Sea [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in Maldive area, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 4-15 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: In Subgenus (Schizaster) L. Agassiz, 1836. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214662 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Schizaster lacunosus (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=214662 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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