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Name

Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D. (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37 (2): 81- 128.

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6113

Authors

Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D.

Year

1979

Title

The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats

Journal

Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist.

Suffix

37 (2): 81- 128

Type

Publication

Abstract

This first full account of the echinoderm fauna of Aldabra Atoll, western Indian Ocean, includes a description of the shallow-water habitats and two special ecological studies dealing with the microhabitats of the Ophiocomidae - the dominant family of coral-reef ophiuroids - and a comparison between the echinoderms of an exposed and sheltered part of the shore. The remainder consists of an annotated fauna list, with details of habitats, colours in life, parasites, commensals and other observations by Sloan, but also takes account of prevoius work by others at the Royal Society's base on the atoll. Nearly 130 species are included, of which 20% are recorded for the first time from the Islands of the western Indian Ocean (excluding the Mascarene Islands)

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Anoplodactylus Wilson, 1878 (additional source)
Anoplodactylus ophiurophilus Stock, 1979 (basis of record)
Asterina burtoni Gray, 1840 accepted as Aquilonastra burtoni (Gray, 1840) (basis of record)
Asterina burtoni Gray, 1840 accepted as Aquilonastra burtoni (Gray, 1840) (source of synonymy)
Gnathophyllum americanum Guérin-Méneville, 1855 (additional source)
Gyptis ophiocomae Storch & Niggemann, 1967 (basis of record)
Holothuria (Selenkothuria) moebii Ludwig, 1883 (basis of record)
Holothuria (Thymiosycia) remollescens Lampert, 1885 (basis of record)
Leiocidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) (source of synonymy)
Melanella muelleriae (Sturany, 1903) (additional source)
Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910) (basis of record)
Ophiarachna megacantha H.L. Clark, 1938 (basis of record)
Ophiarachnella macracantha aldabrensis Sloan, Clark & Taylor, 1979 (original description)
Ophiochaeta boschmai A.H. Clark, 1964 accepted as Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869 (source of synonymy)
Ophiochaeta hirsuta Lütken, 1869 (additional source)
Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1836 (additional source)
Orbithyone megapodia Clark, 1938 (basis of record)
Plococidaris vertillata accepted as Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) (source of synonymy)
Polyeunoa nigropunctata (Horst, 1915) accepted as Hololepidella nigropunctata (Horst, 1915) (additional source)
Thyca crystallina (Gould, 1846) (additional source)

Description

for Hololepidella nigropunctata (Horst, 1915)

Commensal with Macrophiothrix hirsuta in Kalk (1958). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Description

for Holothuria (Selenkothuria) moebii Ludwig, 1883

Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South ... [details]

Description

for Holothuria (Thymiosycia) remollescens Lampert, 1885

Also distributed in Bay of Bengal and north Australia (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, ... [details]

Description

for Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910)

Colour in life: disc centre pink, some plates with large violet spots, the rest off-white, pimk below (Sloan, ... [details]

Description

for Ophiarachnella macracantha aldabrensis Sloan, Clark & Taylor, 1979

Colour in life: disc blood-red with radial shields the same colour, arms basically blood-red with a lighter pattern ... [details]

Description

for Ophiolepis cincta cincta Müller & Troschel, 1842

Has shorter arms than Ophiolepis cincta garretti, with a bolder and usually patterned colouration (Sloan et al., 1979). [details]

Distribution

for Ophiochaeta boschmai A.H. Clark, 1964

Also distributed in East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]

Distribution

for Orbithyone megapodia Clark, 1938

Also distributed in Australia in Clark & Rowe (1971) and Rowe & Gates (1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, ... [details]

Ecology

for Ophiarachna megacantha H.L. Clark, 1938

Ecology: benthic, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, endemic in Australia, recorded depth 42 m. ... [details]

Holotype

for Ophiarachna megacantha H.L. Clark, 1938

Holotype Australian Museum, Sydney (Australia) J6043, paratype Australian Museum, Sydney (Australia) J6379. Type ... [details]

Holotype

for Ophiochaeta boschmai A.H. Clark, 1964

Holotype in Nationall Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden (Netherlands). Type locality: Obi Latoe, Indonesia (Rowe & ... [details]

Holotype

for Orbithyone megapodia Clark, 1938

Holotype Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 1627. Type locality: ... [details]

Remark

for Asterina wega Valenciennes (MS) in Perrier, 1869

Treated as valid in Rowe & Gates (1995) and in Achituv (1969). [details]

Remark

for Holothuria (Selenkothuria) moebii Ludwig, 1883

Holotype (probable) whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Hong Kong (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark

for Holothuria (Thymiosycia) remollescens Lampert, 1885

In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Status undetermined ?Stadtliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart ... [details]

Synonymy

for Hololepidella nigropunctata (Horst, 1915)

Day lists Hololepidella under citations for Polyeunoa nigropunctata, but Pettibone (1993) considers this finding as ... [details]

Type locality

for Ophiarachnella macracantha aldabrensis Sloan, Clark & Taylor, 1979

Aldabra. Holotype: Natural History Museum, London (England) 1978.9.1.1 [details]

Type species

for Ophiocoma L. Agassiz, 1836

Ophiura echinata Lamarck, 1816 by subsequent designation, see Clark, H.L. (1915) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family ... [details]

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