WoRMS taxon details
Plesiocolochirus Cherbonnier, 1946
206174 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206174)
accepted
Genus
Holothuria spinosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 accepted as Plesiocolochirus spinosus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (type by original designation)
Acolochirus Clark, 1946 · unaccepted
Apentacta Clark, 1946 · unaccepted
- Species Plesiocolochirus armatus (von Marenzeller, 1882)
- Species Plesiocolochirus australis (Ludwig, 1875)
- Species Plesiocolochirus challengeri (Théel, 1886)
- Species Plesiocolochirus dispar (Lampert, 1889)
- Species Plesiocolochirus ignavus (Ludwig, 1875)
- Species Plesiocolochirus inornatus (von Marenzeller, 1882)
- Species Plesiocolochirus minaeus O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2016
- Species Plesiocolochirus spinosus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Species Plesiocolochirus tessellarus (Cherbonnier, 1970)
- Species Plesiocolochirus ignava (Ludwig, 1874) accepted as Plesiocolochirus ignavus (Ludwig, 1875)
- Species Plesiocolochirus occiduus (O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1992) accepted as Australocnus occiduus (O'Loughlin & O'Hara, 1992)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Cherbonnier, G., 1946. Sur une holothurie de Quoy et Gaimard, type d'un nouveau genre: Pleisocolochirus n.g. Bulletin Muséum National Histoire Naturelle Paris. 2 série. 18(3): 280-286. [details]
WoRMS (2026). Plesiocolochirus Cherbonnier, 1946. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206174 on 2026-07-16
Date
action
by
2000-09-18 12:45:21Z
created
Garcia, Maria
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
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Nomenclature
original description
Cherbonnier, G., 1946. Sur une holothurie de Quoy et Gaimard, type d'un nouveau genre: Pleisocolochirus n.g. Bulletin Muséum National Histoire Naturelle Paris. 2 série. 18(3): 280-286. [details]
original description (of Acolochirus Clark, 1946) Clark, H. L. (1946). The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> No. 566: 1-567., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9nwcAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1 [details]
original description (of Apentacta Clark, 1946) Clark, H. L. (1946). The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> No. 566: 1-567., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9nwcAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1 [details]
basis of record Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
original description (of Acolochirus Clark, 1946) Clark, H. L. (1946). The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> No. 566: 1-567., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9nwcAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1 [details]
original description (of Apentacta Clark, 1946) Clark, H. L. (1946). The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> No. 566: 1-567., available online at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9nwcAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1 [details]
basis of record Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Remark Type species: Holothuria spinosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 by original designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
