Echinoidea taxon details
Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825) AphiaID: 213383
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Echinometra Gray, 1825 |
Synonymised
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Echinometra brunea A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinometra heteropora L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinometra megastoma M'Clelland, 1840 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinometra microtuberculata A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinometra picta A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus mathaei Blainville, 1825
Ellipsechinus decaryi Lambert, 1933 (subjective junior synonym)
Ellipsechinus matheyi (unjustified emendation)
Ellipsechinus pictus (A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907) (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: Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [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. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 381-393 [details]
additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]
from synonym: Clark, A.M. and J.D. Taylor. (1971). Echinoderms from Diego Garcia. Atoll Research Bulletin. 149: 89-92. [details] [view taxon]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
rock-boring urchin |
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German |
Matheus' Seeigel |
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Direct child
taxa
[show all] | | Subspecies Echinometra mathaei mathaei (Blainville, 1825)
Subspecies Echinometra mathaei oblonga (Blainville, 1825)
Subspecies Echinometra mathaei violacea Michelin, 1845
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Abu Galum [details]
Aldabra [details]
Chagos [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Gulf of Mexico (probably not valid) [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Host of | |
Clavisodalis parvibullatus Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Porcellidium echinophilum Humes & Gelerman, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Mecomerinx notabilis (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (41 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (203 nucleotides; 206 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
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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: variable, spine colour purple/green spines with purple tips and grey-green base or jungle green spines with purple tips (Humphreys, 1981).
Has commensal shrimp Athanas areteformi COUTIERE (Crustacea : Alpheidae) which also occurs on Toxopneustes pileolus and Tripneustes gratilla and parasitic molluscs (Humphreys, 1981). Habitat: rocks (Tortonese, 1951).
Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, Solomon Islands, Seleo Island, Netherlands New Guinea, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Hasikaya Island (Kuria Muria Islands) (Herring, 1972); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); India (Lakshadweep, Tamilnadu, Andaman and Nicobar Is.)(Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-Pacific, depth range 0-139 m. (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Type locality: Type locality: Mauritius (as l'île de France) (historical specimens from Zanzibar). Type data: status undetermined Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) EcEs8124, Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle EcEs8116, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle EcEs656 (historical specimens only) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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| Images | | 
Echinometra mathaei
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Echinometra mathaei Red Sea
added on 2012-04-16 - author: Kroh, Andreas
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2012-04-16 19:13:47 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213383 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825). 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=213383 on 2013-05-24 |
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