WoRMS taxon details
Opheodesoma grisea (Semper, 1867)
AphiaID: 210715
AphiaID: 210715
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Apodida (Order) > Synaptidae (Family) > Opheodesoma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Opheodesoma Fisher, 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Opheodesoma africana Heding, 1931 Opheodesoma mauritiae Heding, 1928 Synapta grisea Semper, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70: 1-292. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Pearson, J., 1910. On marine fauna from Kerimba Archipelago. 2. Littoral Marine Fauna: Kerimba Archipelago, Portuguese East Africa. Holothuroidea. Proceedings Zoological Society London. 1910: 167–182. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record (from synonym): Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): 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] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Cherbonnier, G. (1952). Contributions a la connaissance des Holothuries de l'Afrique du Sud. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Vol 33(4): 469-508. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Heding, S. (1928). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. xlvi. Synaptidae. Vidensk. Medd. naturh. Foren. Kjob. 85: pp. 105-323. [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Clark, H.L. (1924). The holothurians of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The Synaptinae. Bull. Mus. Comp.Zool, Harvard 65(13): 459-501. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Semper, C. (1868). Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band. Holothurien. Hefte iv. and v: Unpaginated. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Heding, S. G. (1931). Uber die Synaptiden des Zoologischen Museums zu Hamburg. Zool. Jahrb. Jena (Syst.) 61: pp. 637-698. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Scambicornus poculiferus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Scambicornus tuberatus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Scambicornus subtilis (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Preherrmannella subtilis Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Preherrmannella tuberata Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Also distributed in SE Arabia, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippines and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-36 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Spelling: O. griseum in Tortonese (1977). Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined (?Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.5075). Type locality: Bohol, Philippines (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210715 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Opheodesoma grisea (Semper, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210715 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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