WoRMS name details
original description
Lesson, R. P. (1830). Centurie zoologique, ou, Choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus. <em>Paris, Levrault.</em> 254 pp. 80 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/41400#/summary [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Tortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Cherbonnier, G. (1952). Les Holothuries de Quoy et Gaimard. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, deuxième série = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, tweede reeks, 44 Institut Royal des Sciences Naturellles de Belgique: Bruxelles. 50, III plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Selenka, E. (1867). Beiträge zur Anatomie und Systematik der Holothurien. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 17(2): 291-374, pls. XVII-XX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45007590#page/321/mode/1up [details]
Unreviewed
Description Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and dorsal surfaces mid brown with white papillae, where body wall expanded the papillae expand to translucent white patches (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Australia inKalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995); SE Arabia; Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is.aAnd Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (Sastry, 1996).
General distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical Indo-west Pacific Ocean (also Panama), depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Holotype Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: Borobora Is., southwest Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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