Echinoidea taxon details
Astropyga radiata (Leske, 1778) AphiaID: 213370
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| 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)
Echinonanthus major Seba, 1734 (pre-Linnean)
Echinus radiatus (Leske, 1778) (transferred to Astropyga)
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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]
basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]
basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1940. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta), pp. 370. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 187-196 [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Cargados Carajos [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mozambique [details]
Seychelles [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (69 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 (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: larva
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| Notes | |
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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| Image | | 
Astropyga radiata
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213370 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Astropyga radiata (Leske, 1778). 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=213370 on 2013-05-23 |
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