Holothuria (Holothuria) tubulosa Gmelin, 1791

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), Zootaxa 4639 (1), pp. 1-231 : 176

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scientific name	Holothuria (Holothuria) tubulosa Gmelin, 1791
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Erroneous— Holothuria (Holothuria) tubulosa Gmelin, 1791

Reports for the Azores:

non Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin, 1790 — Nobre 1924: 89, 1930: 23, 1938: 143–144, figs. 58.1, 69.1 [misidentification]; Pawson & Shirley 1977: 915 [based on previous misidentifications]; Marques 1983: 4, fig. 8 [misidentification]; Pereira 1997: 333 [based on previous misidentifications]; Morton et al. 1998: 98, 169, figs. 5.2T, 8.8R [misidentification]; Wirtz 2009a: 46 [misidentification]; Micael & Costa 2010: 323 [based on previous misidentifications]; Micael et al. 2010: 329 [based on previous misidentifications]; Micael et al. 2012: 4 [based on previous misidentifications].

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea.

See: Tortonese (1965: 53–56, figs. 16, 17); Borrero-Pérez et al. (2009).

Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea ( Tortonese 1965).

Depth: 0–100 m ( Tortonese 1965).

Habitat: sand, mud to gravel, on sea grass prairies ( Tortonese 1965).

Larval stage: probably planktotrophic (inferred from the genus; see McEdward & Miner 2001).

Commercial value: edible ( Sicuro & Levine 2011).

Remarks: see remarks under H. mammata .

References

Borrero-Perez, G. H., Perez-Ruzafa, A., Marcos, C. & Gonzalez-Wang ʾ emert, M. (2009) The taxonomic status of some Atlanto- Mediterranean species in the subgenus Holothuria (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae) based on molecular evidence. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 157, 51 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.2009.00529. x

Gmelin, J. F. (1791) Vermes. In: Gmelin J. F. (Ed.), Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae. Tome 1 (6). 13 th Edition. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae, pp. 3021 - 3910.

Marques, V. M. (1983) Peuplements benthiques de Acores, 1 - echinoderms. Arquivo do Museu Bocage, AII (I), 1 - 7.

McEdward, L. R. & Miner, B. G. (2001) Larval and life-cycle patterns in echinoderms. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 79, 1125 - 1170. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / z 00 - 218

Micael, J. & Costa A. C. (2010) Echinodermata. In: Borges, P. A. V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Goncalves, V., Martins, A. F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R. S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Principia, Oeiras, pp. 321 - 323.

Micael, J., Alves, M. J., Jones, M. B. & Costa, A. C. (2012) Diversity of shallow-water asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Azorean Archipelago. Marine Biodiversity Records, 5, e 49. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267211000534

Morton, B., Britton, J. C. & Martins, A. F. M. (1998) Ecologia costeira dos Acores. Sociedade Afonso Chaves, Ponta Delgada, 249 pp.

Nobre, A. (1924) Contribuicies para a Fauna dos Acores. Anais do Instituto de Zoologia da Universidade do Porto, 1, 41 - 90.

Nobre, A. (1930) Materiais para o estudo da fauna dos Acores. Instituto de Zoologia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, 108 pp.

Nobre, A. (1938) Equinodermes de Portugal. 3 rd Edition. Companhia Editora do Minho, Barcelos, 215 pp.

Pawson, D. L. & Shirley, T. C. (1977) Occurrence of the subgenus Holothuria (Holothuria) in the Gulf of Mexico (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90 (4), 915 - 920.

Pereira, M. (1997) Checklist of the littoral echinoderms of the Azores. Acoreana, 8 (3), 331 - 337.

Sicuro, B. & Levine, J. (2011) Sea Cucumber in the Mediterranean: A Potential Species for Aquaculture in the Mediterranean. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 19 (3), 299 - 304. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 10641262.2011.598249

Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.