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Labidodemas semperianum Selenka, 1867 
AphiaID: 210774

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Aspidochirotida (Order) > Holothuriidae (Family) > Labidodemas (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Labidodemas Selenka, 1867
Parent Labidodemas Selenka, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Holothuria proceraspina Cherbonnier, 1967
Labidodemas dubiosum Ludwig, 1875
Labidodemas egestosum Sluiter, 1901
Labidodemas selenkianum Semper, 1868
Sources  original description: Selenka, E. (1867). Beitrage zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien. Der Philosophischen Facultat zu Gottingen in December 1866, als Dissertation vorgelegt.: pp. 291-374. [details]

basis of record: Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Zoologische Documentatie 19. 39 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Samyn, Y.; Appeltans, W.; Kerr, A.M. (2005). Phylogeny of Labidodemas and the Holothuriidae (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida) as inferred from morphology. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 144(1): 103-120. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record (from synonym): Tortonese, E. (1977). Report on Echinoderms from the gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology N.S. S. IX(12): 273-290. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Cherbonnier, G. (1967). Deuxieme contribution a l'étude des Holothuries de la mer Rouge collectees par des Israeliens. Bull. Sea Fish. Res. Stn Israel 43: 55-68. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon] [full text]

original description (from synonym): Ludwig, H.L. (1875). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Holothurien. Arbeiten aus dem zoolog. zootom. Institut in Würzburg 2 (2): 77-120, pl. 6-7. [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): Sluiter, C. P. (1901). Die Holothurien der Siboga-Expedition. Monogr. xliv. Uitkomst. H. M. Siboga...uitgegeven Max Weber. Die Holothurien der Siboga-Expedition. Monogr. xliv. Uitkomst. H. M. Siboga...uitgegeven Max Weber.: 142 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution East Africa [details]
Kenya [details]
Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Host of  Scambicornus sentifer Humes, 1980 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Description: Colour in life: white with pale purple-brown anterior and posterior ends (Humphreys, 1981.
Also distributed in Sandwich Is. (Selenka, 1867); Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north australia, Philippine, 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-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters to 30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: Type specie of the genus Labidodemas Selenka, 1867. Syntypes Zoologisches Museum, Göttingen (Germany), Museum of comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 736 (2 specimens). Type locality: Hawaiian Ils. (as Sandwich Inseln) and Society Ils. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Rowe (1969) places H. pertinax Ludwig, 1875 as a synonym. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210774
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-11-12 21:36:03Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2000-10-11 08:25:22Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-14 14:03:44Z  checked  Paulay, Gustav
  
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  Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Labidodemas semperianum Selenka, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210774 on 2013-06-19
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