WoRMS taxon details
Synapta maculata (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
AphiaID: 210974
AphiaID: 210974
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Holothuroidea (Class) > Apodida (Order) > Synaptidae (Family) > Synapta (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Synapta Eschscholtz, 1829 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Fistularia doreyana Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 Holothuria (Fistularia) oceanica Lesson, 1830 Holothuria maculata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 Oncinolabes fuscescans Brandt, 1835 Synapta agassizii Selenka, 1867 Synapta astrolabi Held, 1857 Synapta beselii Jaeger, 1833 Synapta mammillosa Eschscholtz, 1829 Synapta oceanica (Lesson, 1830) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] from synonym: Eschscholtz, F., 1829. Zoologischer Atlas; enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neue Thierarten während der Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter reise um die Welt 1823-26. Reimer, Berlin. Volume 2. 13 pps., pls. 6-10. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Heilprin, A. (1888). Contributions to the Natural History of the Bermuda Islands. P. Ac. Philad. pt. iii: pp. 309-318. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Massin, Claude (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Thandar, A.S. & F.W.E. Rowe (1989). New species and new records of apodous holothurians (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) from southern Africa. Zoologica Scripta 18(1): 145 - 155. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Synapta maculata andreae (Heding, 1928) Subspecies Synapta maculata sudaensis (Heding, 1928) Variety Synapta maculata var. andreae Heding, 1928 accepted as Synapta maculata andreae (Heding, 1928) Variety Synapta maculata var. sundaensis Heding, 1928 accepted as Synapta maculata sudaensis (Heding, 1928) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] East Africa [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Scambicornus nicobaricus (Sewell, 1949) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Scambicornus nicobaricus (Sewell, 1949) (parasitic: endoparasitic) Scambicornus poculiferus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Scambicornus poculiferus (Humes & Cressey, 1961) (parasitic: endoparasitic) Synapticola teres Voigt, 1892 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Preherrmannella poculifera Humes & Cressey, 1961 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: grey tentacle, body apparently with broad longitudinal bands of fawn and mid brown, closer examination shows effect caused by irregular patches of black over beige background (Thandar, 1990). Also recorded in Insel Radack (Selenka, 1867); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippines, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (Sastry, 1996). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-20 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Marshall Islands (as 'Ad insulas Radack') (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210974 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Paulay, G. (2013). Synapta maculata (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210974 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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