Species Paracaudina chilensis (Müller, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Molpadia chilensis Müller, J. 1850. Anatomische Studien über die Echinodermen. Archives d'Anatomie et de Physiologie 1850: 129-147 [139].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Caudina ransonnetii Marenzeller, E. von 1882. Neue Holothurien von Japan und China. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 121-140 pls 4-5 [126, pl. 4, fig. 5] [as Caudina Ransonnetii].

  Type data:

   Holotype undetermined, Yellow Sea, China.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pawson, D.L. & Liao, Y. 1992. Molpadiid sea cucumbers of China, with descriptions of five new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105(2): 373-388 figs 1-8 [385]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-Pacific, including northwest Australia and New Zealand; to 1000 m (Pawson 1963)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, deposit feeder, inshore, 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

 

History of changes

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