WoRMS taxon details
Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinacea Semper, 1868
210852 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210852)
accepted
Species
Holothuria andersoni Bell, 1886 · unaccepted
Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868 · alternative representation
Holothuria erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868 · unaccepted
Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
Description Description: body rather narrower in its anterior half. Uniformly brown, but a clear ring is around the small buccal...
Description Description: body rather narrower in its anterior half. Uniformly brown, but a clear ring is around the small buccal tentacles, which form a group 7 mm wide. Podia crowded on the belly, much smaller and scattered on the back, where the skin is much folded. Spicules are only rods, generally more elongated that those figured by Semper. A median axis is apparent and may be somewhat recurved. Shape very variable, surface smooth, edge more or less spiny, holes restricted at the extremities or arranged in a series along one or both sides of the axis. The larger rods are like perforated plates, the smaller may remind buttons. No true buttons or tables have been observed (Tortonese, 1980).
General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, shoreline waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, shoreline waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
WoRMS (2024). Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinacea Semper, 1868. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210852 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
original description (of Holothuria andersoni Bell, 1886) Bell, FJ., 1886. On the holothurians of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the trustees of the Indian Museum by Dr. John Anderson. Journal Linnean Society London. 21: 25-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1886.tb00968.x [details]
original description (of Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883) Ludwig, H. (1883). Verzeichniss der Holothurien des Kieler Museums. In: Festschrift zur Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens der Gesellschaft. <em>Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde.</em> 22: 155-176., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46070 [details]
original description (of Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868) Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
original description (of Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868) Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
original description (of Holothuria erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868) Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
basis of record Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [details]
original description (of Holothuria andersoni Bell, 1886) Bell, FJ., 1886. On the holothurians of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the trustees of the Indian Museum by Dr. John Anderson. Journal Linnean Society London. 21: 25-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1886.tb00968.x [details]
original description (of Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883) Ludwig, H. (1883). Verzeichniss der Holothurien des Kieler Museums. In: Festschrift zur Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens der Gesellschaft. <em>Bericht der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde.</em> 22: 155-176., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46070 [details]
original description (of Holothuria (Selenkothuria) erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868) Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
original description (of Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868) Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
original description (of Holothuria erinaceus var. pygmaea Semper, 1868) Semper, C. (1867-1868). Holothurien. In: Semper, C., ed.: <em>Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Erster Band.</em> Leipzig: W. Engelmann. iv + 288 pp., 40 pls. [1867 = pp. 1-70, pls. 1-15; 1867/(1868) = pp. 71-100, pls. 16-25; 1868 = pp. 101-288, pls. 26-40]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11687 [details]
basis of record Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description Description: body rather narrower in its anterior half. Uniformly brown, but a clear ring is around the small buccal tentacles, which form a group 7 mm wide. Podia crowded on the belly, much smaller and scattered on the back, where the skin is much folded. Spicules are only rods, generally more elongated that those figured by Semper. A median axis is apparent and may be somewhat recurved. Shape very variable, surface smooth, edge more or less spiny, holes restricted at the extremities or arranged in a series along one or both sides of the axis. The larger rods are like perforated plates, the smaller may remind buttons. No true buttons or tables have been observed (Tortonese, 1980).General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, shoreline waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Rowe (1969) regards H. lubrica var. marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883 as a synonym of H. erinaceus.
Spelled H. erinaceus in Tortonese (1980) and Clark & Rowe (1971).
Syntypes Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2551. Type locality: Fiji (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Holothuria andersoni Bell, 1886)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (4 records) (from synonym Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (8 records) (from synonym Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Holothuria andersoni Bell, 1886)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (4 records) (from synonym Holothuria marenzelleri Ludwig, 1883)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (8 records) (from synonym Holothuria erinaceus Semper, 1868)
