WoRMS taxon details

Clypeaster humilis (Leske, 1778)

213364  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213364)

accepted
Species
Clypeaster (Stolonoclypus) humilis (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (subgeneric subdivision of...)  
subgeneric subdivision of Clypeaster not accepted by scientific community
Clypeaster ambigenus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Clypeaster latus Herklots, 1854 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Clypeaster placunarius (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Clypeaster rumphii Des Moulins, 1837 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Clypeaster saisseti Michelin, 1861 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Clypeaster tumescens Herklots, 1854 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinanthus explanatus Gray, 1851 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinanthus humilis Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (transferred to Clypeaster)
Echinanthus placunarius (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinanthus productus Gray, 1851 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinodiscus placunarius (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella ambigena Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella placunaria Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Stolonoclypus humilis (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (transferred to Clypeaster)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Echinanthus humilis Leske, 1778) 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): 185-189; pl. 17: fig. A, pl. 18: fig. B, pl. 19: figs A-D [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South...  
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-216 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2024). World Echinoidea Database. Clypeaster humilis (Leske, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213364 on 2024-04-16
Date
action
by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z
created
2000-09-22 07:17:05Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z
changed
2013-08-26 18:24:18Z
changed

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original description  (of Clypeaster latus Herklots, 1854) Herklots, J. A. 1854. Fossiles de Java. Description des restes fossiles d'animaux des terrains Tertiaires de I´île de Java, recueillis... par F. Junghuhn. Pt. IV. Échinodermes. Leide, E.J. Brill, 24 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11397506
page(s): 6; pl. 2: fig. 1 [details]   

original description  (of Clypeaster rumphii Des Moulins, 1837) des Moulins, C. 1837. Troisième Mémoire sur les Échinides. - Synonymie générale. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 9, 45-364. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32866957
page(s): 62 [details]   

original description  (of Clypeaster saisseti Michelin, 1861) Michelin, H. 1861. Notice sur quelques espèces d'echinides provenant de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Rev. et mag. de zool. 1861. 325-329. pl. 9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13713719
page(s): 327-329; pl. 9: fig. 2 [details]   

original description  (of Clypeaster tumescens Herklots, 1854) Herklots, J. A. 1854. Fossiles de Java. Description des restes fossiles d'animaux des terrains Tertiaires de I´île de Java, recueillis... par F. Junghuhn. Pt. IV. Échinodermes. Leide, E.J. Brill, 24 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11397506
page(s): 7; pl. 2: fig. 2 [details]   

original description  (of Echinanthus explanatus Gray, 1851) Gray, J.E. (1851). Description of two new genera and some new species of Scutellidae and Echinolampidae in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 19: 34-38., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680264
page(s): 35 [details]   

original description  (of Echinanthus humilis Leske, 1778) 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): 185-189; pl. 17: fig. A, pl. 18: fig. B, pl. 19: figs A-D [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Echinanthus productus Gray, 1851) Gray, J.E. (1851). Description of two new genera and some new species of Scutellidae and Echinolampidae in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 19: 34-38., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680264
page(s): 35 [details]   

original description  (of Scutella ambigena Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, <b>Tome troisième</b> [in full: Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres présentant les caractéres généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent]. <em>[book series].</em> 586 pp. Paris: Deterville/Verdière., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 12 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Scutella placunaria Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, <b>Tome troisième</b> [in full: Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres présentant les caractéres généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent]. <em>[book series].</em> 586 pp. Paris: Deterville/Verdière., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 12 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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]   

redescription 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): 88-94 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-216 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark Mortensen (1948a) doubts the identity of Brown's specimen (1910b) from Mozambique and H.L. Clark' s (1923a) from Natal. The East African specimen in the British Museum record is one from Zanzibar (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
In Subgenus (Stolonoclypus) A. Agassiz, 1863. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]