WoRMS taxon details
Actinopyga Bronn, 1860
205662 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205662)
accepted
Genus
Holothuria (Holothuria) echinites Jaeger, 1833 accepted as Actinopyga echinites (Jaeger, 1833) (type by subsequent designation)
Jaegeria Bell, 1887 · unaccepted
Metis Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted (younger homonym)
Muelleria Jaeger, 1833 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Mulleria Ferussac, 1825...)
of Mulleria Ferussac, 1825 (Mollusca) as well as Mulleria Fleming, 1828 (Synaptidae; = Oestergrenia Heding, 1931)
Mülleria Jaeger, 1833 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
- Species Actinopyga agassizii (Selenka, 1867)
- Species Actinopyga albonigra Cherbonnier & Féral, 1984
- Species Actinopyga bacilla Cherbonnier, 1988
- Species Actinopyga bannwarthi Panning, 1944
- Species Actinopyga caerulea Samyn, VandenSpiegel & Massin, 2006
- Species Actinopyga capillata Rowe & Massin, 2006
- Species Actinopyga crassa Panning, 1944
- Species Actinopyga echinites (Jaeger, 1833)
- Species Actinopyga flammea Cherbonnier, 1979
- Species Actinopyga fusca Cherbonnier, 1980
- Species Actinopyga lecanora (Jaeger, 1833)
- Species Actinopyga mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Species Actinopyga miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Species Actinopyga obesa (Selenka, 1867)
- Species Actinopyga palauensis Panning, 1944
- Species Actinopyga serratidens Pearson, 1903
- Species Actinopyga spinea Cherbonnier, 1980
- Species Actinopyga varians (Selenka, 1867)
- Species Actinopyga agassizi (Selenka, 1867) accepted as Actinopyga agassizii (Selenka, 1867) (misspelling)
- Species Actinopyga bedfordi Deichmann, 1922 accepted as Holothuria (Platyperona) difficilis Semper, 1868
- Species Actinopyga caroliniana Tan Tiu, 1981 accepted as Actinopyga echinites (Jaeger, 1833)
- Species Actinopyga formosa (Selenka, 1867) accepted as Thelenota ananas (Jaeger, 1833)
- Species Actinopyga parvula Clark, 1920 accepted as Holothuria (Platyperona) difficilis Semper, 1868 (Not an available name; Clark uses Actinopyga parvula (Selenka) = Holothuria parvula, but the specimen discussed represents H. difficilis)
- Species Actinopyga plebeja (Selenka, 1867) accepted as Actinopyga echinites (Jaeger, 1833)
- Species Actinopyga polymorpha Saville-Kent, 1890 accepted as Actinopyga miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bronn, H.G. (1860). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Strahlenthiere (Actinozoa) wissenschaftlich dargestellt. In: <em>Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Zweiter Band. Aktinozoen.</em> Leipzig & Heidelberg: C.F. Winter. 434 pp., 48 pls. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Actinopyga Bronn, 1860. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205662 on 2025-05-23
Date
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2000-09-21 11:31:59Z
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Garcia, Maria
2006-09-04 10:51:58Z
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Martinez, Olga
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Nomenclature
original description
Bronn, H.G. (1860). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Strahlenthiere (Actinozoa) wissenschaftlich dargestellt. In: <em>Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Zweiter Band. Aktinozoen.</em> Leipzig & Heidelberg: C.F. Winter. 434 pp., 48 pls. [details]
original description (of Jaegeria Bell, 1887) Bell, F. J. (1887). Studies in the Holothuroidea. vi. Description of New Species. Proc. Zool. Soc.: pp. 531-534. [details]
original description (of Metis Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526 [details]
original description (of Muelleria Jaeger, 1833) Jaeger, G. F. (1833). De Holothuriis. <em>Gessnerianis, Turici.</em> 41 pp. 3 pls., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10588969 [details]
basis of record Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Échinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar. <em>Paris, Publicé sous les auspices du Gouvernment de la République Malgache, Éditions de l'ORSTOM.</em> 70: 1-292. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Jaegeria Bell, 1887) Bell, F. J. (1887). Studies in the Holothuroidea. vi. Description of New Species. Proc. Zool. Soc.: pp. 531-534. [details]
original description (of Metis Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526 [details]
original description (of Muelleria Jaeger, 1833) Jaeger, G. F. (1833). De Holothuriis. <em>Gessnerianis, Turici.</em> 41 pp. 3 pls., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10588969 [details]
basis of record Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Échinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar. <em>Paris, Publicé sous les auspices du Gouvernment de la République Malgache, Éditions de l'ORSTOM.</em> 70: 1-292. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Samyn, Y.; Vandenspiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). A new Indo-West Pacific species of Actinopyga (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1138: 53-68., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.1138.1.3 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diagnosis Life size from moderate to very large (400 mm) in length; body stout with thick and firm body wall, covered by prominent ambulatory tube feet ventrally and, numerous, modified, elongate tube feet (= “papillae”) dorsally; mouth ventral, surrounded by 15–30 large, peltate tentacles; calcareous ring firm, radial pieces about twice as large as interradial pieces; anus dorsal to terminal, guarded by five, nearly always prominent, heavily calcified terminal tube feet (= “anal teeth”). Ossicles in body wall rosettes and straight to branched, smooth or spiny, rods; tentacles with rods of various sizes and forms, often spiny at extremities; tube feet and papillae with rods and rosettes similar to those of body wall, but often with more complex branched rods; longitudinal and cloacal retractor muscles with rods similar to the simple, smooth ones from the body wall; gonad with rods similar to those of body wall; cloacal wall with spiky rods. Tables, buttons or other ossicle types absent from all tissues. Cuvierian organs present or absent, when present never expelled, non-sticky and composed of three distinct parts: (i) smooth proximal half of trunk, (ii) slightly rugged distal half of trunk, and (iii) highly ragged elongated primary and secondary branches. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | クリイロナマコ属 | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Actinopyga)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Jaegeria) (from synonym Jaegeria Bell, 1887)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metis) (from synonym Metis Gistel, 1848)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metis) (from synonym Metis Gistel, 1848)
To Genbank
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Actinopyga)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Jaegeria) (from synonym Jaegeria Bell, 1887)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metis) (from synonym Metis Gistel, 1848)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metis) (from synonym Metis Gistel, 1848)
To Genbank
To ITIS
