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Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D. (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37 (2): 81- 128.
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Sloan, N. A.; Clark, A. M.; Taylor, J. D.
1979
The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats
Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist.
37 (2): 81- 128
Publication
This first full account of the echinoderm fauna of Aldabra Atoll, western Indian Ocean, includes a description of the shallow-water habitats and two special ecological studies dealing with the microhabitats of the Ophiocomidae - the dominant family of coral-reef ophiuroids - and a comparison between the echinoderms of an exposed and sheltered part of the shore. The remainder consists of an annotated fauna list, with details of habitats, colours in life, parasites, commensals and other observations by Sloan, but also takes account of prevoius work by others at the Royal Society's base on the atoll. Nearly 130 species are included, of which 20% are recorded for the first time from the Islands of the western Indian Ocean (excluding the Mascarene Islands)
Asterina burtoni Gray, 1840 accepted as Aquilonastra burtoni (Gray, 1840) (basis of record)
Asterina burtoni Gray, 1840 accepted as Aquilonastra burtoni (Gray, 1840) (source of synonymy) Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910) (basis of record)
Aldabra for Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758)
Aldabra for Asterina burtoni Gray, 1840 Aldabra for Asterina burtoni cepheus (Müller & Troschel, 1842) Aldabra for Asteropsis carinifera (Lamarck, 1816) Aldabra for Astropecten polyacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1842 Aldabra for Culcita schmideliana (Bruzelius, 1805) Aldabra for Dactylosaster cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816) Aldabra for Fromia milleporella (Lamarck, 1816) Aldabra for Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840 Aldabra for Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758) Aldabra for Linckia multifora (Lamarck, 1816) Aldabra for Mithrodia clavigera (Lamarck, 1816) Aldabra for Neoferdina offreti (Koehler, 1910) Aldabra for Ophidiaster hemprichi Müller & Troschel, 1842 Aldabra for Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830) Aldabra for Stellaster Gray, 1840 Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone for Dactylosaster cylindricus (Lamarck, 1816) Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone for Ophidiaster hemprichi Müller & Troschel, 1842 Red Sea for Asterina wega Valenciennes (MS) in Perrier, 1869 Description Commensal with Macrophiothrix hirsuta in Kalk (1958). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Description Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South ... [details] Description Also distributed in Bay of Bengal and north Australia (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, ... [details] Description Colour in life: disc centre pink, some plates with large violet spots, the rest off-white, pimk below (Sloan, ... [details] Description Colour in life: disc blood-red with radial shields the same colour, arms basically blood-red with a lighter pattern ... [details] Description Has shorter arms than Ophiolepis cincta garretti, with a bolder and usually patterned colouration (Sloan et al., 1979). [details] Distribution Also distributed in East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] Distribution Also distributed in Australia in Clark & Rowe (1971) and Rowe & Gates (1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, ... [details] Ecology Ecology: benthic, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, endemic in Australia, recorded depth 42 m. ... [details] Holotype Holotype Australian Museum, Sydney (Australia) J6043, paratype Australian Museum, Sydney (Australia) J6379. Type ... [details] Holotype Holotype in Nationall Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden (Netherlands). Type locality: Obi Latoe, Indonesia (Rowe & ... [details] Holotype Holotype Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 1627. Type locality: ... [details] Remark Treated as valid in Rowe & Gates (1995) and in Achituv (1969). [details] Remark Holotype (probable) whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Hong Kong (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Status undetermined ?Stadtliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart ... [details] Synonymy Day lists Hololepidella under citations for Polyeunoa nigropunctata, but Pettibone (1993) considers this finding as ... [details] Type locality Aldabra. Holotype: Natural History Museum, London (England) 1978.9.1.1 [details] Type species Ophiura echinata Lamarck, 1816 by subsequent designation, see Clark, H.L. (1915) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family ... [details] |