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Pseudoboletia maculata Troschel 1869
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Description
Pseudoboletia maculata Troschel, 1869
Material studied. WUSL/ER/271 (dry, with spines) from Polhena. Literature records for Sri Lanka. Herdman et al. (1904), Clark (1915), Fernando (2006), Jayakody (2012).
Distribution in Sri Lanka. Northern and southern coasts of Sri Lanka.
Recorded depth range in Sri Lanka. 13 m (previous records).
Habitat. Not recorded.
Observed occurrence in this study. None.
Remarks. P. maculata differs from P. indiana because the former has dark spots on the test, but the latter is uniform in colour and lacks spots.
One denuded specimen is housed at the DAF (Polhena, 1–5 m).
Notes
Published as part of Arachchige, Gayashan M., Jayakody, Sevvandi, Mooi, Rich & Kroh, Andreas, 2019, An annotated species list of regular echinoids from Sri Lanka with notes on some rarely seen temnopleurids, pp. 35-57 in Zootaxa 4571 (1) on pages 43-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2605940
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Troschel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Camarodonta
- Family
- Toxopneustidae
- Genus
- Pseudoboletia
- Species
- maculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudoboletia maculata Troschel, 1869 sec. Arachchige, Jayakody, Mooi & Kroh, 2019
References
- Herdman, W. A., Herdman, J. B. & Bell, F. J. (1904) Report on the Echinoderma collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. In: Herdman, W. A. (Ed.), Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the Gulf of Mannar. The Royal Society, London, pp. 137 - 150.
- Clark, H. L. (1915) The echinoderms of Ceylon other than holothurians. Spolia Zeylanica, 10, 83 - 102.
- Fernando, M. (2006) Coral associated invertebrates: An overview of the current taxonomic status. In: Bambaradeniya, C. N. B. (Ed.), The Fauna of Sri Lanka. Section 3. Status of Marine Fauna in Sri Lanka. IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland and Cambridge, pp. 259 - 273.
- Jayakody, S. (2012) Provisional checklist of sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of Sri Lanka. In: Weerakoon, D. K. & Wijesundara, S. (Eds.), The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora. Ministry of Environment, Colombo, Sri Lanka, pp. 370 - 372.