Echinoidea taxon details
 Astropyga radiata (Leske, 1778) AphiaID: 213370
| Status | | accepted |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Astropyga Gray, 1825 |
Synonymised
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Asteropyga radiata (misspelling for Astropyga radiata)
Astropyga elastica Bell, 1876 (subjective junior synonym)
Astropyga freudenbergi Sarasin, 1887 (subjective junior synonym)
Astropyga major (Seba, 1734) (pre-Linnean)
Astropyga mossambica Peters, 1853 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris radiata Leske, 1778 (transferred to Astropyga)
Cidarites radiata (Leske, 1778) (transferred to Astropyga)
Diadema radiatum (Leske, 1778) (transferred to Astropyga)
Echinus radiatus (Leske, 1778) (transferred to Astropyga)
Echionanthus major Seba, 1734 (pre-Linnean)
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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]
additional source Clark, A.M. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]
additional source Mortensen, T. (1940b). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta). 370 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 187-196 [details]
original description (of Cidaris radiata Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp.
page(s): 116-117; pl. 44: fig. 1 [details] [full text]
original description (of Astropyga freudenbergi Sarasin, 1887) Sarasin, P. & Sarasin, F. (1887). Die Augen und das Integument der Diadematiden. Pp. 1-18 in P. Sarasin & F. Sarasin Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftlicher Forschungen auf Ceylon C.W. Kreidel's Verlag, Wiesbaden. , available online at https://archive.org/details/ergebnissenaturw1188sara
page(s): 16-17; pl. 1: figs.1, pl. 2: figs 2a-d [details]
original description (of Astropyga mossambica Peters, 1853) Peters, W. (1853). Über die an der Küste von Mossambique beobachteten Seeigel und insbesondere über die Gruppe der Diademen. Abhandlungen der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.1854: 101-119, 1 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92694#page/161/mode/1up
page(s): 112-113; pl.1: fig 1 [details]
original description (of Echionanthus major Seba, 1734) Seba, A. (1758). Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata
descripto, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio per universam physices
historiam. Tomus III. Janssonio Waesbergios, Amstelaedami, 212 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversityheritagelibrary.org/item/127758#page/7/mode/1up
page(s): 31; pl. 14: figs 1-2 [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | From editor or global species database
South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Indian Ocean
 Aldabra [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
Kenya
Kenya [details]
Mozambique
Mozambique [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Cargados Carajos [details]
Seychelles
Seychelles [details]
South Africa
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania
Tanzania [details]
(no group)
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (80 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
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| Attribute | | Functional group benthos » Stage adult (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Functional group plankton » Stage larva (inherited from Echinodermata) [details] |
| Notes | | From other sources
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia in Kalk (1958); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands in Sastry (1991); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 66-70 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
A. freudenbergi P. u. F. Sarasin treated as a synonym of A. radiata in Ludwig (1899).
In family 'Centrechinidae' in Kalk (1958). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213370 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2014). Astropyga radiata (Leske, 1778). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2014) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2014) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213370 on 2015-03-03 |
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