WoRMS name details
Holothuria (Microthele) nobilis (Selenka, 1867)
210835 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210835)
alternative representation
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Muelleria nobilis Selenka, 1867) 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]
Description Colour in life: dark chocolate brown with large raised white areas adjacent to sole, tube feet milk white but background...
Description Colour in life: dark chocolate brown with large raised white areas adjacent to sole, tube feet milk white but background brown.
Some with commensal polynoid Gastrolepidia clavigera SCHMARDA, 1861 with mottled black and white scales (Humphreys, 1981).
The distribution of this species ranges from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern Australia and New Caledonia (Massin, 1996). Widespread in the tropical Indo-west Pacific, shallow waters (Rowe & Gates (1995) and Conand (1998)). Also recorded in Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995 Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Habitat: reef flats, slopes, shallow seagrass beds, depth range from surface down to 20 m. (Conand, 1998); rocky bottoms, depth range 5-45 m. (Massin, 1996). [details]
Some with commensal polynoid Gastrolepidia clavigera SCHMARDA, 1861 with mottled black and white scales (Humphreys, 1981).
The distribution of this species ranges from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern Australia and New Caledonia (Massin, 1996). Widespread in the tropical Indo-west Pacific, shallow waters (Rowe & Gates (1995) and Conand (1998)). Also recorded in Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995 Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Habitat: reef flats, slopes, shallow seagrass beds, depth range from surface down to 20 m. (Conand, 1998); rocky bottoms, depth range 5-45 m. (Massin, 1996). [details]
WoRMS (2024). Holothuria (Microthele) nobilis (Selenka, 1867). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210835 on 2024-04-19
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original description
(of Muelleria nobilis Selenka, 1867) 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]
basis of record Panning, A. (1941). Ueber einige Ostafrikanische Seewalzen und ihre eignung zur Trepanggewinnung. Thalassia IV (8): 1-18. [details]
additional source Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70: 1-292. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Massin, C. (1999). Reef-dwelling Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the Spermonde Archipelago (South-West Sulawesi, Indonesia). Zoologische Verhandelingen 329, Leiden. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Massin, C. (1996). The Holothurians of Easter Island, Bull. KBIN, Brussels, Vol. 66: 151-178 (look up in IMIS) [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
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basis of record Panning, A. (1941). Ueber einige Ostafrikanische Seewalzen und ihre eignung zur Trepanggewinnung. Thalassia IV (8): 1-18. [details]
additional source Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Echinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar 70: 1-292. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Massin, C. (1999). Reef-dwelling Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the Spermonde Archipelago (South-West Sulawesi, Indonesia). Zoologische Verhandelingen 329, Leiden. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Massin, C. (1996). The Holothurians of Easter Island, Bull. KBIN, Brussels, Vol. 66: 151-178 (look up in IMIS) [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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description Colour in life: dark chocolate brown with large raised white areas adjacent to sole, tube feet milk white but background brown.Some with commensal polynoid Gastrolepidia clavigera SCHMARDA, 1861 with mottled black and white scales (Humphreys, 1981).
The distribution of this species ranges from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern Australia and New Caledonia (Massin, 1996). Widespread in the tropical Indo-west Pacific, shallow waters (Rowe & Gates (1995) and Conand (1998)). Also recorded in Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995 Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Habitat: reef flats, slopes, shallow seagrass beds, depth range from surface down to 20 m. (Conand, 1998); rocky bottoms, depth range 5-45 m. (Massin, 1996). [details]
Remark In Subgenus: (Microthele) Brandt, 1835. Type data: status and whereabotus undetermined. Type locality: 'Insula Guahan', NW Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Rowe (1969) places H. whitmaei Bell, 1887 as a synonym. [details]
