Species Pseudostichopus hyalegerus (Sluiter, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meseres hyalegerus Sluiter, C. P. 1901. Neue holothurien aus der Tiefsee des Indischen Archipels Gesammelt durch die Siboga-Expedition. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 7(1): 1-28 [12].
• Pseudostichopus (Trachostichopus) tachimaruae Imaoka, T. 1978. Three new species of the genus Pseudostichopus from the Japanese waters. (Holothurioidea: Gephyrothuriidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 24(4/6): 377–385, figs 1–3, 1 tbl. [380-382, fig. 2a-e, tbl. 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype 311, Japan, W of Kyushu, near Shimo-Koshiki I., 400-450 m, T. Imaoka, 27 Oct 1976.
  Paratype(s) 312 2, Japan, W of Kyushu, near Shimo-Koshiki I., 400-450 m, T. Imaoka, 27 Oct 1976.
• Pseudostichopus (Trachostichopus) japonensis Imaoka, T. 1978. Three new species of the genus Pseudostichopus from the Japanese waters. (Holothurioidea: Gephyrothuriidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 24(4/6): 377–385, figs 1–3, 1 tbl. [382-384, fig. 3a-d, tbl 1-2].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMBL 313, Japan Sea, off the Akita Prefecture, 200–300 m, S. Nishimura, 1972–1973.
  Paratype(s) SMBL 314 3 specimens, Japan Sea, off the Akita Prefecture, 200–300 m, S. Nishimura, 1972–1973.
• Pseudostichopus molpadioides Ohshima, H. 1915. Report on the holothurians collected by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross in the northwestern Pacific during the summer of 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 48(2073): 213-291 pls 8-11 [228-229, pl. 8(6a-c)].
• Pseudostichopus arenosus Ohshima, H. 1915. Report on the holothurians collected by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross in the northwestern Pacific during the summer of 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 48(2073): 213-291 pls 8-11 [229].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pseudostichopus hyalegerus (Sluiter, 1901). —
  O'Loughlin, P.M. & Ahearn, C 2005. A review of pygal-furrowed Synallactidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), with new species from the Antarctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62: 147-179 [170-171, fig. 10a, 12n-p]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West Pacific, Indonesia, Banda Sea, 204 m (Sluiter, 1901a); Japan, Sagami Sea, 141–564 m (Mitsukuri, 1912, as P. trachus); Japan Sea, south of Honshu, 128–553 m (Ohshima, 1915, as P. trachus); 200–300 m (Imaoka, 1978, as P. japonensis); Hokkaido, Shiribeshi, 714 m (Ohshima, 1915, as P. molpadioides), Kyushu, Koshiki Is, 781 m (Ohshima, 1915, as P. arenosus); 400–450 m (Imaoka, 1978, as P. tachimaruae); eastern Australia, Tasman Sea and Bass Strait, 293–1100 m (O'Loughlin & Ahearn 2005)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Timor Province (2), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

History of changes

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		15-Feb-2012	ADDED