WoRMS name details
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). Échinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar. <em>Paris, Publicé sous les auspices du Gouvernment de la République Malgache, Éditions de l'ORSTOM.</em> 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 [request]
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]
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Japanese |
イシナマコ |
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Swahili (individual language) |
pauni mweusi |
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