Echinoidea taxon details
Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816) AphiaID: 212440
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Stomopneustes L. Agassiz, 1841b |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Echinus leschenaulti Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus paucituberculatus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus variolaris Lamarck, 1816 (transferred to Stomopneustes)
Heliocidaris paucituberculatus (Blainville, 1825) (subjective junior synonym)
Heliocidaris variolaris (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Stomopneustes)
Stomopneustes atropurpurea Tension-Woods, 1881 (subjective junior synonym)
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| 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. 1935. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, pp. 647. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 507-512 [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
East Africa [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Host of | |
Pseudanthessius luculentus Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Mecomerinx luculenta (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
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| Attribute | | Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: larva
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| Notes | |
Description: Habitat: rock pools, crevices, bores, overhangs and the like. Preference for shady areas with constant water circulation, avoiding direct wave action (Sastry, 1996).
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); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)), Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Visakhapatnam Coast (India) in Sastry, 1996; Ceylan (Lambert, 1923).
General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to South Pacific Islands (Sastry, 1991).
Depth range: littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995), near 18 m. (Sastry, 1996).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark: Type locality: Australian Seas. Syntypes Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) EcEs5022-5024 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212440 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212440 on 2013-05-25 |
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