Species Afrocucumis africana (Semper, 1868)

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Species Afrocucumis africana (Semper, 1868)

Cucumaria africana Semper, C. 1868. Holothurien. Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen 1: 1-288, pls 1-40 [53, pl. 15(16)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB 3 specimens, Querimba Is., East Africa.
Cucumaria assimilis Bell, F.J. 1886. On the holothurians of the Mergui Archipelago collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr John Anderson. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 20: 25-28 pl. 2 [27, pl. 2(4)].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1886.2.2.25, 26 2 specimens, Elphinstone Is., Mergui Archipelago, Burma; IM (depository uncertain), Elphinstone Is., Mergui Archipelago, Burma.
Pseudocucumis theeli Ludwig, H. 1887. Drei Mittheilungen über alte und neue Holothurienarten. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 54: 1217-1244 pl. 15 [1236, pl. 15(12-16)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB 5 specimens (depository uncertain), Zanzibar.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Ludwig, H. 1888. Die von Dr J. Brock im Indischen Archipel Gesammelten Holothurien. Zoologische Jahrbücher Syst. 3(6): 805-820 pl. 30 [815]
Heding, S.G. & Panning, A. 1954. Phyllophoridae. Eine Bearbeitung der polytentaculaten dendrochiroten Holothurien des Zoologischen Museums in Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 13: 1-209 figs 1-102 [109]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Carnarvon, WA to Caloundra, Qld; Indo-west Pacific Ocean. Intertidal waters.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, suspension feeder, tropical.

General References

Clark, A.M. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1971. Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 238 pp. 100 figs 31 pls.

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567 (as Discucumaria africana (Semper, 1868))

Marsh, L.M., Vail, L.L., Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1993. Part 6. Echinoderms of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. pp. 53-65 2 tables in Berry, P.F. (ed.). Marine faunal surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island North-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 91 pp.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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