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Echinoidea taxon details

Eucidaris metularia (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 213369

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Cidaroidea (Subclass) > Cidaroida (Order) > Cidaridea (Superfamily) > Cidaridae (Family) > Cidarinae (Subfamily) > Eucidaris (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Eucidaris Pomel, 1883
Synonymised
taxa
  Cidaris (Dorocidaris) metularia (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Eucidaris)
Cidaris (Eucidaris) metularia (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Eucidaris)
Cidaris (Gymnocidaris) metularia (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Eucidaris)
Cidaris mauri Lambert & Thiéry, 1910 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris metularia (Lamarck, 1816)
Cidarites metularia Lamarck, 1816
Gymnocidaris metularia (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Eucidaris)
Gymnocidaris minor A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1928b. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea, pp. 551. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 386-392 [details]


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: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]

Links To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Attribute Fossil range: Phanerozoic > Paleozoic > Permian > Cisuralian (298.9±0.2 Ma) (inherited from Cidaroida)
Fossil range: Phanerozoic > Cenozoic > Quaternary > Holocene (0.0117 Ma) (inherited from Cidaroida)
Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
Notes  Description: Also distributed in Tuamotus and Guam (Clark, 1954); Maldive area, 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: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-40 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: Syntypes (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) EcEs5000. Type locality: 'l'Ocean des granes Indes [East Indies], les Cotes de l'Ile de France [Mauritius]' (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Döderlein as author in Kalk (1958). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213369
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). Eucidaris metularia (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=213369 on 2013-05-22
  

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