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Mesothuria regularia Heding 1940
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Description
Mesothuria regularia Heding, 1940
(Fig. 12 A – B)
Mesothuria (Allantis) regularia Heding, 1940: 335 – 336, textfig. 4.
Mesothuria regularia; Cherbonnier & Féral, 1981: 371, fig.8 A – I; Liao, 1997: 77 – 78, fig. 42.
Material examined. Non-type material: IE-2007-754(1) (1 specimen, collected sampled around Majumga); IE- 2007-794 (1 specimen, dredged between Majunga & Cape Saint-André); IE-2007-818 (2 specimens, collected dredged between Majunga & Cape Saint-André)
Remarks. This species was already known from the Pemba Channel (Heding, 1940) and has also has been recorded in the Atlantic (Heding, 1940) and the Pacific (Cherbonnier & Féral 1981; Liao 1997). It is however a new record for Madagascar.
Notes
Published as part of Samyn, Yves & Vandenspiegel, Didier, 2016, Sublittoral and bathyal sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the Northern Mozambique Channel with description of six new species, pp. 451-497 in Zootaxa 4196 (4) on pages 469-470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/168273
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mesothuriidae
- Genus
- Mesothuria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Aspidochirotida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Heding
- Species
- regularia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesothuria regularia Heding, 1940 sec. Samyn & Vandenspiegel, 2016
References
- Heding, S. G. (1940) Die Holothurien der Deutchsen Tiefsee Expedition II. Aspidochirote und Elasipod Formen. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Damfer Valdivia 1898 - 1899, 24, 317 - 375.
- Liao, Y. (1997). Fauna Sinica, Phylum Echinodermata, Class Holothuroidea. Science Press, Bejing, China, i - ix, 335 pp, 2 plates.