WoRMS taxon details
Temnopleurus toreumaticus (Leske, 1778)
AphiaID: 214667
AphiaID: 214667
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Temnopleuridea (Infraorder) > Temnopleuridae (Family) > Temnopleurus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Temnopleurus L. Agassiz, 1841b | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cidaris toreumatica Klein, 1734 (pre-Linnean) Echinus sculptus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus toreumaticus (Leske, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Temnopleurus aerolatus Herklots, 1854 (subjective junior synonym) Temnopleurus caelatus Herklots, 1854 (subjective junior synonym) Temnopleurus depressus D´Archiac & Haime, 1853 (subjective junior synonym) Temnopleurus mortenseni Diakonov, 1923 (subjective junior synonym) Temnopleurus perezi Koehler, 1903 (subjective junior synonym) Temnopleurus reynaudi L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 (subjective junior synonym) Toreumatica granulosa Gray, 1855 (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. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ, pp. vii+553. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 76-84 [details] source of synonymy (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 | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Description: test plates with deep transverse pits at the corners; primary tubercles crenulate and imperforate; ambulacral plates each with a primary tubercle, spines banded with reddish grey (Sastry, 1995). Habitat: sandy substrata (Sastry, 1995). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistas, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (West Bengal); Andamans, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat (Sastry, 1995); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-45 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-west Pacific as far east as South Pacific Islands (Sastry, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type material: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214667 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Temnopleurus toreumaticus (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=214667 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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