WoRMS taxon details
Holothuria (Platyperona) difficilis Semper, 1868
AphiaID: 148752
AphiaID: 148752
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Holothuriidae (Family) > Holothuria (Genus) > Holothuria (Platyperona) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Holothuria (Platyperona) Rowe, 1969 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Holothuria (Platyperona) Rowe, 1969 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinopyga bedfordi Deichmann, 1922 Actinopyga parvula Clark, 1920 (Not an available name; Clark uses Actinopyga parvula (Selenka) = Holothuria parvula, but the specimen discussed represents H. difficilis) Holothuria altimensis Clark, 1921 Holothuria frequentamentis Clark, 1902 Microthele difficilis (Semper, 1868) Muelleria lubrica Sluiter, 1894 Mulleria lubrica Sluiter, 1894 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Semper, C. (1868). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band. Holothurien. Hefte iv. and v: Unpaginated. [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E. (1969). A review of the family Holothuriidae (Holothurioidea: Aspidochirotida). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) (Zool.) 18(4): 119-170 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: James, D.B & J.S. Pearse (1969). Echinoderms from the Gulf of Suez and the Northern Red Sea. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India 11(1-2): 79-125. [details] basis of record: Massin, C. (1996). The Holothurians of Easter Island, Bull. KBIN, Brussels, Vol. 66: 151-178 (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Deichmann, E. (1922). On some cases of multiplication by fission and of coalescence in Holothurians; with notes on the synonymy of Actinopyga parvula (Sel.). Videns. Medd. nat. For. Kjobenhavn 73: pp. 199-214. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Sluiter, C. P. (1894). Holothurien. Zool. Forschungsreisen in Australien, &c.. p. 79. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] East Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Scambicornus modestus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: This species extent from the Red Sea and Madagascar to the tropical coasts of Central America and Mexico and from Japan and China to New Caledonia and Easter Island (Massin, 1996). Also recorded from Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, china, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific, central-west America, Mexico (Pacific coast), shallow water (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In shallow water (0-4 m.) of well sheltered areas (Massin, 1996). [details] Remark: Type species of the Subgenus: Platyperona Rowe, 1969. Holotype in Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2546. Type locality: Navigator Islands, Samoa (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Rowe (1969) places H. frequentiamensis H.L. Clark, 1902 as a synonym. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148752 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Holothuria (Platyperona) difficilis Semper, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148752 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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