WoRMS name details
original description
(of Holothuria (Thyone) edulis Lesson, 1830) Lesson, R. P. (1830). Centurie zoologique, ou, Choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus. <em>Paris, Levrault.</em> 254 pp. 80 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/41400#/summary [details]
basis of record
Cherbonnier, G. (1979). Holothuries nouvelles ou peu connues de mer Rouge (Echinodermes). Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4ieme serie, 1, Section A, no 4: 861-870. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
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]
additional source
Lampert, K. (1896). Die von Dr. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889 an der Ostküste Afrikas gesammelten Holothurien. Mittheilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Hamburg, XIII:40 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
Unreviewed
Description Also distributed in Ostasiatische Meere (Selenka, 1867); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-20 m.(Rowe & Gates, 1995); widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific (Conand, 1998).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Habitat: shallow water; inner and outer flats of coastal reefs, back reefs or shallow coastal lagoons, barrier reefs, sandy-muddy ground with rubble or coral patches and in seagrass beds (Conand, 1998). [details]
Remark Holotype in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Mollucas (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Trepang Jaeger is regarded as H. (Halodeima) even suppression proposed in Rowe (1969).
Type specie of the genus Trepang Jaeger, 1833, now a synonym of Holothuria (Halodeima) Pearson, 1914 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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