Echinoidea taxon details
Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816) AphiaID: 212465
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Metalia Gray, 1855 |
Synonymised
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Brissus areolatus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym)
Brissus bicinctus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym)
Brissus sternalis (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Metalia)
Metalia gareti (misspelling for Metalia gareti)
Metalia garretti (A. Agassiz, 1863) (subjective junior synonym)
Metalia sternalis var. jousseaumei Dollfus & Roman, 1981 (infrasubspecific and unavailable according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 45.6.3)
Metalia sternalis var. lata Dollfus & Roman, 1981 (infrasubspecific and unavailable according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 45.6.3)
Metallia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816) (misspelling for Metalia sternalis)
Spatangus sternalis Lamarck, 1816 (transferred to Metalia)
Xanthobrissus garretti A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
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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. 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): 535-537 [details]
from synonym: Dollfus, R.-P. & Roman, J. 1981. Les Échinides de la mer Rouge. Ministère des Universités, Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, Mémoires de la Section des Sciences 9, 1-145.
page(s): 124 [details] [view taxon]
identification resource: Coppard, S. E. 2008. A comparative analysis of the spatangoid echinoid genera Brissopsis and Metalia: a new genus and species of spatangoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Brissopsidae) from the Philippines and reassignment of Brissopsis persica to Metalia. Zootaxa 1760, 1-23.
page(s): 3, figs 7, 8, 11 [details]
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Variety Metalia sternalis var. jousseaumei Dollfus & Roman, 1981 accepted as Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816)
Variety Metalia sternalis var. lata Dollfus & Roman, 1981 accepted as Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816)
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
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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: Also distributed in New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: Indo-Pacific Ocean (Lambert, 1923); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-90 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark: Syntype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) EcEs5084. Type locality: l'Ocean austral (=Australian seas?) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212465 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Metalia sternalis (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=212465 on 2013-05-20 |
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