Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Colour in life: red on pink or grey background, furrow spines white with pink tube feet juveniles mottled blue-green or grey-green. Commonly with commensal carapid fish and paleomonid shrimps (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Ceylon, bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); western and central Indian Ocean, including Ceylon, western Australia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indian Ocean, depth range 1-10 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne).
- contributor
- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
