Metalia spatagus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 212463

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Brissidae (Family) > Metalia (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Metalia Gray, 1855
Synonymised taxa		Brissus compressus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym) Echinus maculosus Gmelin, 1788 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus spatagus Linnaeus, 1758 (transferred to Metalia) Metalia maculosa (Gmelin, 1788) (subjective junior synonym) Prometalia spatagus (Linnaeus, 1758) Prometalia ventricosa Lambert & Thiery, 1924 (subjective junior synonym) Spatangus compressus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym)
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] 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. 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): 540-542 [details] from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] 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]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Notes		Description: Also distributed in Guam, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-130 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Arica to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'Oceano omni' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212463
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-22 07:17:05Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2010-09-07 10:47:00Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Metalia spatagus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=212463 on 2013-05-24