WoRMS name details
original description
(of Stichopus (Gymnochirota) cinerascens Brandt, 1835) Brandt, J. F. (1835). Echinodermata ordo Holothurina. <em>In: Prodromus Descriptionis Animalium ab H. Mertensio in Orbis Terrarum Circumnavigatione Observatorum. Fasc. I: 75 pps. Petropoli.</em> pp. 42-62., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=9-KK6BsniXcC [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Wai, T. C., Ng, W. C., Leung, K. M. Y. & Williams, G. A. (2011). Stock and ecological status of echinoderms in Hong Kong: evaluation of effectiveness of marine protected areas using sea urchins as model organism. Final report. Submitted to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government. [details]
basis of record
Tortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139. (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 This species extends from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern Australia (Massin, 1996); from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific lower shore and reef crest (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also recorded from SE Arabia, 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); under stones or in crevices, depth range 2-19 m. (Massin, 1996). [details]
Remark In Subgenus Semperothuria Deichmann, 1958. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'inter lapides in insulis Boninsimensibus', (NW Pacific) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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