WoRMS name details
original description
Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834 page(s): 202 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 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]
additional source
Mortensen, T. (1948). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ. 471 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 400-403 [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]
Neotype MAC MAC.IVM.109, geounit Mozambique Channel [details]
From other sources
Description Description: test flat, slightly broader than long; peristome slightly anterior; periproct on the oral side, in the postrior interambulacrum, half-way to the posterior margin; two open lunules in the posterior paired ambulacra; all miliary spines similar, no dark coloured spines; four genital pores (Sastry, 1995). Habitat: fine sandy areas near the river mouths (Sastry, 1995).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (West Bengal), Andamans, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (Sastry, 1995); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: tropical, discontinuous (western Indian Ocean, west Pacific Ocean), depth range 0-5 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-west Pacific (Sastry, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
From editor or global species database
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