Echinoidea taxon details
original description
(of Scutella decagonalis Blainville, 1827) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1827. Scutelle, Scutella. (Actinoz.). Pp. 222-229 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 48 F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris.
, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25312947 page(s): 229 [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Clark, A. M. (1982). Echinoderms of Hong Kong. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 1: 485-501. [details]
basis of record
Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16398922 [details]
additional source
Mortensen, T. (1948). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ. 471 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 331-337 [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
From other sources
Description Description: test flat, thin, fragile, decagonal or almost rounded; margin thin; madreporic pores in a sinuous groove; oral furrows distinct up to half the test radius; periproct on the oral side, in the posterior interambulacrum, close to the posterior margin; five genital pores (Sastry, 1995). Habitat: subtidal silt and sandy beds (Sastry, 1995).
Also distributed in W India, Pakistan, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (West Bengal), Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (Sastry, 1995); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 5-301 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-west Pacific (Sastry, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Waigeo Island (as l'ile Waigou), Indonesia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
From editor or global species database
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