Tripneustes gratilla

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Bay and lagoon , on sand , rubble or seagrass covered bottoms .

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,610 meters (0 to -11,844 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Behavior

Covers itself with various object, like rubble and detritus .

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Tripneustes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. depressus (White Sea Urchin) · T. esculentus (Edible Sea Egg) · T. gratilla (Collector Urchin) · T. ventricosus (Sea Egg)

More Info

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Further Reading

• ...Scientific results of the cruises of the yachts "Eagle" and "Ara", 1921-1928, William K. Vanderbilt, commanding. Crustacea... By Lee Boone. Huntington, N. Y., Priv. print. [The Science press printing company, Lancaster, Pa.]1930- url , , p. 254, p. 255.
• A catalogue of the recent sea-urchins (Echinoidea) in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) / by Hubert Lyman Clark; [with a preface by C. Tate Regan]. London, 1925. url p. 124, p. 250.
• Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc., South African Museum, etc.] url p. 387.
• Atoll research bulletin. Washington, D.C.: [Smithsonian Press url p. 11, p. 67.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. 14 1940 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 48.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 118, p. 131, p. 204, p. 211, p. 89.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 301.
• Coral Reefs of the World. url p. 147, p. 170, p. 195, p. 20, p. 207, p. 32.
• Dahlak: with the Italian National Underwater Expedition in the Red Sea, by Gianni Roghi and Francesco Baschieri. Translated from the Italian by Priscilla Hastings. Edited by Eleanor Brochett. With 11 full colour and 40 monochrome photos. Fair Lawn, N.J.Essential books1957 url p. 250.
• Echinoderms from Australia: an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932, with 28 plates (16 colored) and 64 text figures / by Hubert Lyman Clark. 55 1938 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1938. url p. 397.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 39, p. 41, p. 44.
• IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 1034, p. 424.
• Larvae of marine bivalves and echinoderms / V.L. Kasyanov. .. [et al.]; scientific editor, David L. Pawson. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1998. url p. 147.
• Madagascar: an environmental profile IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 106.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 77, p. 82.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url , p. 286, p. 286.
• Memoirs: Australian Museum. Sydney: The Museum, 1851- url p. 521, p. 557.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 81.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 106, p. 122, p. 139, p. 151.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 102 1956 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 271, p. 3.
• Spolia zeylanica. S.l.: s.n. url , p. 98.
• Studies of the development and larval forms of echinoderms, by Dr. Th. Mortensen. Copenhagen, G. E. C. Gad, 1921. url , p. 34.
• Texas conchologist. [Houston, Houston Conchology Society], 1964- url p. 5.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 247.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , p. 124, p. 196, p. 289, p. 296, p. 324, p. 395, p. 68, p. 85.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 671.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 280.
• The echinoderm fauna of Torres Strait: its composition and its origin, by Hubert Lyman Clark. Washington, D. C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921. url , p. 144, p. 200, p. 220, p. 9.
• Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Wellington: New Zealand Institute. url p. 161.
• World Atlas of Seagrasses UNEP-WCMC url p. 176, p. 96.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South Western Pacific Regional OBIS Data All Sea Bio Subset
• National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5450942
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13758742
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 707104

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,814.810 meters (-5,954.101 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,592.170 based on 27 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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