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Gephyrothuria alcocki Koehler & Vaney, 1905

Gephyrothuria alcocki
Gephyrothuria alcocki

124559  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124559)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Echinozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Holothuroidea (Class)
  6. Actinopoda (Subclass)
  7. Persiculida (Order)
  8. Gephyrothuriidae (Family)
  9. Gephyrothuria (Genus)
  10. Gephyrothuria alcocki (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Koehler, R. & Vaney, C. (1905). An account of the deep-sea Holothurioidea collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator. [Holothuries recueillies par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien. I. Les Holothuries de mer profonde.]. <em>In: Alcock, A. (ed.) Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Holothurioidea. Calcutta: Indian Museum.</em> vi + 124 pp. + ii, 15 pls. [details] 
Distribution Distribution: Atlantic Ocean, 1,316-3,678 m. (Thandar, 1999).
Ecology: benthic, continental slope, abyssal, detritus...  
Distribution Distribution: Atlantic Ocean, 1,316-3,678 m. (Thandar, 1999).
Ecology: benthic, continental slope, abyssal, detritus feeder, deposit feeder. General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (Gulf of Panama), depth range 1170-3114 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
WoRMS (2024). Gephyrothuria alcocki Koehler & Vaney, 1905. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124559 on 2024-11-24
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Hansson, Hans
2005-04-12 15:22:33Z
changed
Appeltans, Ward
2010-10-14 14:03:44Z
checked
Paulay, Gustav

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original description Koehler, R. & Vaney, C. (1905). An account of the deep-sea Holothurioidea collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator. [Holothuries recueillies par l'Investigator dans l'Océan Indien. I. Les Holothuries de mer profonde.]. <em>In: Alcock, A. (ed.) Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. Holothurioidea. Calcutta: Indian Museum.</em> vi + 124 pp. + ii, 15 pls. [details] 

original description (of Gephyrothuria europeensis Hérouard, 1923) Hérouard, E. (1923). Holothuries provenant des campagnes des yachts Princesse-Alice et Hirondelle ii. (1898-1915). Res. camp. sci. Monaco 66: pp. 1-161. [details] 

original description (of Himasthlephora glauca H.L. Clark, 1908) Clark, H. L. (1908). The apodous holothurians. A monograph of the Synaptidae and Molpadiidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.</em> 35(1732): 1-231., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.28255 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Gebruk A.V., Smirnov A.V., Rogacheva A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Holothuroidea. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 156–180 [in English]. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Thandar, A.S. (1999). Deep-sea Holothuroids taken by the R.V. Africana II in 1959, from off the West Coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., Vol. 105(9): 364-409, 16 figs, 2 tables (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution Distribution: Atlantic Ocean, 1,316-3,678 m. (Thandar, 1999).
Ecology: benthic, continental slope, abyssal, detritus feeder, deposit feeder. General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (Gulf of Panama), depth range 1170-3114 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark Syntypes (probable) Indian Museum, Calcutta (India) (2 specimens). Type locality: off Sri Lanka (6°52'N 81°11'E) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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LanguageName 
English Alcock's fusiform sea cucumber  [details]
French holothurie d'Alcock  [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Gephyrothuria glauca (Clark, 1908))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Gephyrothuria europeensis Hérouard, 1923)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gephyrothuria alcocki) 
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Gephyrothuria europeensis Hérouard, 1923)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Himasthlephora glauca H.L. Clark, 1908)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (9 records) (from synonym Gephyrothuria glauca (Clark, 1908))
From editor or global species database
Gephyrothuria alcocki
Gephyrothuria alcocki
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