WoRMS taxon details
NomenclatureOtheradditional source
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
Unreviewed
Description Colour in life: the shiny skin uniform burgundy (Sloan et al., 1979).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, South Pacific Is. And Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman and Nicobar Is., Bay of Bengal (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-5 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Type locality: ?Australia; Lamarck (1816) gives the locality as 'les mers australes' but Perrier (1875) as 'Ile de France' (Mauritius) in Clark & Rowe (1971). [details]
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