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Tortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139.
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As a contribution to the study of the marine fauna of Somalia, which is still poorly known, 59 species of littoral Echinoderms are reported. They were recently collected in four localities (Mogadiscio, Gesira, Sar uanle, Bender Mtoni), in different ecological situations. Two species of Ophiuroids (Amphioplus somaliensis and A. minutus) are described as new. Several others of each class require comments on their variability, taxonomy and distribution.
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East Africa for Actinopyga echinites (Jaeger, 1833) 
East Africa for Holothuria (Platyperona) strigosa Selenka, 1867 
East Africa for Monachaster sanderi (Meissner, 1892) 
East Africa for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957 
East Africa for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869 
Madagascar for Monachaster sanderi (Meissner, 1892) 
Madagascar for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) 
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840) 
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) 
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957 
Red Sea for Holothuria (Halodeima) atra Jaeger, 1833 
Red Sea for Holothuria (Semperothuria) cinerascens (Brandt, 1835) 
Red Sea for Macrophiothrix hirsuta cheneyi (Lyman, 1861) 
Red Sea for Monachaster sanderi (Meissner, 1892) 
Red Sea for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) 
Red Sea for Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Red Sea for Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861 
Red Sea for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Actinopyga echinites (Jaeger, 1833) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Actinopyga mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Afrocucumis africana (Semper, 1867) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphioplus minutus Tortonese, 1980 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Amphioplus somaliensis Tortonese, 1980 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Asterina burtoni Gray, 1840 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Colobocentrotus atratus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Commissia hartmeyeri AH Clark, 1912 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Culcita schmideliana (Bruzelius, 1805) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Eucidaris metularia (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Euretaster cribrosus (von Martens, 1867) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Fromia milleporella (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Heterocentrotus trigonarius (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Fistularia) hilla Lesson, 1830 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Halodeima) atra Jaeger, 1833 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Lessonothuria) pardalis Selenka, 1867 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) leucospilota (Brandt, 1835) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra Jaeger, 1833 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Microthele) nobilis (Selenka, 1867) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Platyperona) strigosa Selenka, 1867 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinacea Semper, 1868 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Selenkothuria) parva Krauss in Lampert, 1885 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Semperothuria) cinerascens (Brandt, 1835) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Stauropora) pervicax Selenka, 1867 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Thymiosycia) arenicola Semper, 1868 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Holothuria (Thymiosycia) impatiens (Forsskål, 1775) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Labidodemas rugosum (Ludwig, 1875) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Linckia multifora (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix aspidota (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix hirsuta (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Macrophiothrix hirsuta cheneyi (Lyman, 1861) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Monachaster sanderi (Meissner, 1892) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Nardoa variolata (Bruzelius, 1805) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiactis savignyi (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiarachnella gorgonia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma brevipes Peters, 1851 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma erinaceus Müller & Troschel, 1842 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pica Müller & Troschel, 1842 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiocoma valenciae Müller & Troschel, 1842 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiolepis cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiolepis superba H.L. Clark, 1915 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomastix venosa Peters, 1851 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiomyxa australis Lütken, 1869 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophionereis dubia (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiopeza fallax Lütken, 1869 (non Peters, 1851) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiopeza spinosa (Ljungman, 1867) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophioplocus imbricata (Müller & Troschel, 1842) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix nereidina (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix propinqua Lyman, 1861 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix trilineata Lütken, 1869 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Pentaceraster mammillatus (Audouin, 1826) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Polycheira rufescens (Brandt, 1835)  (inaccurate)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Salmacis bicolor L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone for Toxopneustes pileolus (Lamarck, 1816) 
Somalia for Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825) 
Somalia for Echinoneus cyclostomus Leske, 1778 
Somalia for Laganum depressum L. Agassiz, 1841 
Somalia for Microcyphus rousseaui L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 
Somalia for Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758) 
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophiothrix echinotecta Balinsky, 1957 
 Description

General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth ... [details]

 Description

Colour in life: when contracted is deep chocolate brown and creviced surface; crevices bordered with light grey border; ... [details]

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Colour in life: pinkish blue overall (Humphreys, 1981). Colour brown, more or less dark and uniform; two specimens ... [details]

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Description of the holotype: disc diameter 3,5 mm. Single complete arm about 5 times the disc diameter. Edge of the ... [details]

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Description from the holotype: disc diameter 5 mm. Arm length about 6 times the disc diameter. Edge of the disc not ... [details]

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Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and ... [details]

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Sometimes accompanied by the polynoid polychaete, Gastrolepidia clavigera, which crawls over its host and matches ... [details]

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Colour in life: deep charcoal-grey over all surfaces only relieved on the sole by pale grey tube feet (Humphreys, ... [details]

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Colour in life: brown with small white spots dorsally, or a few pale blotches, sides becoming pale and sole milky ... [details]

 Description

General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

 Description

General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, South Arabia, Persian Gulf (Tortonese, 1980); SE Arabia and Persian ... [details]

 Description

This species extends from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern ... [details]

 Description

General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, ... [details]

 Description

General distribution: almost circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, circumtropical, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe ... [details]

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Colour in life: variable, grey, yellow beneath with orange apexed papillae covering surface, or grey-brown or ... [details]

 Description

Description: skin rather thin, clear yellow-brown. Podia yellow, ventrally arranged in three rows (the median ... [details]

 Description

Habitat: Found buried in sand in the upper balanoid zone, ususally associated with Patinapta crosslandi Heding and ... [details]

 Remark

Sybtypes Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (3 specimens). Type locality: Mauritius, Indian ... [details]

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In family Phyllophoridae in Tortonese (1980) and Clark & Rowe (1971). Syntypes Museum für Naturkunde an der ... [details]

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Only known from the holotype (type locality: Gesira, Somalia) (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

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Only known from the holotype type locality: Sar Uanle, Somalia (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

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In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Holotype Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type ... [details]

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In subgenus (Halodeima) Pearson, 1914. Type species of the Subgenus: (Halodeima) (Tortonese, 1980). Type data: ... [details]

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Stichopus leucospilota is type species of the Subgenus: (Mertensiothuria) Deichmann, 1958. Type locality: Ualan, ... [details]

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Type species of the Subgenus: (Metriatyla) Rowe, 1969. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type ... [details]

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In Subgenus Selenkothuria Deichmann, 1958 in Tortonese (1980). [details]

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In Subgenus Semperothuria Deichmann, 1958. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'inter ... [details]

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In Subgenus (Mertensiothuria) Deichmann, 1958 in Tortonese (1980); in Subgenus (Stauropora) Rowe, 1969 in Rowe & ... [details]

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In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Rowe (1969) treats H. monsuni Heding, 1939 as a synonym. Syntype in ... [details]

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Fistularia impatiens is original combination and type species of the Subgenus: (Thymiosycia). In Subgenus ... [details]

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This is a very varied species, hence the number of synonyms. The variations lie not only in colouration and the ... [details]

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L. rugosa in Clark & Taylor (1971). Holotype Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2625. Type ... [details]

 Type specimen

Type status and whereabouts undetermined.  [details]