Echinoidea taxon details
Echinothrix calamaris (Pallas, 1774) AphiaID: 213377
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Echinothrix Peters, 1853 |
Synonymised
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Astropyga calamaria (Pallas, 1774) (transferred to Echinothrix)
Astropyga desorii L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris calamaria (Pallas, 1774) (transferred to Echinothrix)
Cidaris calamaris (Pallas, 1774) (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites calamaria (Pallas, 1774) (transferred to Echinothrix)
Diadema calamare (Pallas, 1774) (transferred to Echinothrix)
Diadema calamaria (Pallas, 1774) (transferred to Echinothrix)
Diadema calamarium (Pallas, 1774) (transferred to Echinothrix)
Diadema desori (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (misspelling for Diadema desorii)
Diadema frappieri (Michelin, 1862) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix aequalis A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix annellata Peters, 1853 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix aperta A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix clavata Bölsche, 1865 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix desori (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846)
Echinothrix desorii (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix scutata A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinotrix calamaris (Pallas, 1774) (misspelling for Echinothrix calamaris)
Echinus calamaris Pallas, 1774 (tranferred to Echinothrix)
Echinus calamarus Pallas, 1774 (transferred to Echinothrix)
Garelia aequalis Gray, 1855 (subjective junior synonym)
Garelia clavata Gray, 1855 (subjective junior synonym)
Savignya frappieri Michelin, 1862 (subjective junior synonym)
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| Sources | |
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]
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): 285-290 [details]
from synonym: James, D.B & J.S. Pearse (1969). Echinoderms from the Gulf of Suez and the Northern Red Sea. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India 11(1-2): 79-125. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: 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] [view taxon]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
banded sea urchin |
[details] |
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English |
banded urchin |
[details] |
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German |
Calamaris-Seeigel |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Sewul [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Host of | |
Senariellus tensus Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Senariellus foliatus (Stock, 1967) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To YouTube
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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: Colour in life: purplish-brown, inter-ambulacral spines with fine to broad transverse white bands, tissue at base of spines light maroon (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Solomon Islands (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, 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 in Kalk (1958); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean; depth range 0-90 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Type locality: Type locality: East Indies
Peters as author and placed in family 'Centrechinidae' in Kalk (1958).
Type data: syntypes whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| Image | | 
Echinothrix calamaris (Pallas, 1774)
added on 2012-05-23 - author: Dr. WJ Chen ( )
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213377 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinothrix calamaris (Pallas, 1774). 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=213377 on 2013-05-20 |
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