Genus Holothuria Linnaeus, 1767

Museums

Regional Maps

• Holothuria Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [1089].

  Type species:

   Holothuria tremula Linnaeus, 1767 by monotypy (not Holothuria tremula Gunnerus, 1767 =Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin, 1890; validated by [17]).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Rowe, F.W.E. 1969. A review of the family Holothuriidae (Holothurioidea: Aspidochirotida). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 18(4): 117-170 figs 1-21 [124]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical Region, Nearctic Region, Panama, West Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Australian Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NW oceanic, SE oceanic
• Tasman Sea

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

History of changes

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