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Echinoidea taxon details

Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 213378

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Acroechinoidea (Infraclass) > Diadematoida (Order) > Diadematidae (Family) > Echinothrix (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Echinothrix Peters, 1853
Synonymised
taxa
  Astropyga spinosissima (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Astropyga subularis (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Centrostephanus subularis (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris araneiformis Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites spinosissima Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites subularis Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema dejardinsii Michelin, 1845 (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema spinosissimum (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema subulare (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix cincta (A. Agassiz, 1863) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix petersii Bölsche, 1865 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix spinosissima (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix spinosissimum (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix subularis (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix turcarum Peters, 1853 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus coronalis Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758 (transferred to Echinothrix)
Garelia cincta A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Garelia subularis (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
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: 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. 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): 290-295 [details]


basis of record (from synonym): Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 102-106 [details] [view taxon]


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

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English blue-black urchin  [details]
English Schwarzer Diademseeigel  [details]
German Diadem-Seeigel  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Marsa Shagra [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Indian Ocean [details]

Host of  Pseudanthessius vinnulus Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 53 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Attribute Functional group: benthos » Stage: adult (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Functional group: plankton » Stage: larva (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Notes  Description: Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan (Clark, 1954); 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 Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991).
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'M. Indico' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Image 
Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758)
Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2012-05-23 - author: Dr. WJ Chen & Dr. Lo, L.C. ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213378
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=213378 on 2013-06-19
  

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