Laganum depressum L. Agassiz, 1841 
AphiaID: 212456

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Neognathostomata (Superorder) > Clypeasteroida (Order) > Scutellina (Suborder) > Laganiformes (Infraorder) > Laganidae (Family) > Laganum (Genus)

Status		unaccepted (transferred to Jacksonaster)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Jacksonaster depressum (L. Agassiz, 1841)
Rank		Species
Parent		Laganum Link, 1807
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: Lambert, J. (1923). Echinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mém. Soc. Acad. Agric. Sci. Dép. Aube 85: 13-55, 1 pl. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ, pp. 471. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 313-318 [details] additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Laganum depressum alienum Mortensen, 1948 accepted as Jacksonaster depressum alienum (Mortensen, 1948) Subspecies Laganum depressum delicatum Mazzetti, 1894 accepted as Jacksonaster depressum delicatum (Mazzetti, 1894) Subspecies Laganum depressum tenue Mortensen, 1948 accepted as Jacksonaster depressum tenue (Mortensen, 1948) Subspecies Laganum depressum tonganese A. Agassiz, 1841 accepted as Jacksonaster depressum tonganese (A. Agassiz, 1841)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Notes		Authority: L. Agassiz considered as author in Clark (1954). Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: l'île Bourou, Indo-Malay Archipelago (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Description: Colour in life: background off-white with pale purplish brown blotches, dark pigment surrounding mouth and anus (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in Marshall Islands, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: from the Red Sea to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-85 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212456
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-25 07:20:28Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2010-09-07 10:14:26Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas 2011-04-12 11:49:39Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Laganum depressum L. Agassiz, 1841. 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=212456 on 2013-05-24