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Red Spotted Footless Sea Cucumber

Leptosynapta transgressor Heding 1928

Body symmetry

Smirnov 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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ecosystem engineering

Queirós et al 2013
surficial modifier
URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/surficialModifier

Definition: bioturbating fauna with activities restricted to the sediment layer immediately below the sediment surface

Attribution: S. Lindqvist, Engelbrektsson, Eriksson, Hulth. 2016. Functional classification of bioturbating macrofauna in marine sediments using time-resolved imaging of particle displacement and multivariate analysis. Biogeosciences Discuss, 13 Oct. 2016. doi:10.5194/bg-2016-411.

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geographic distribution

United States Species List
United States
URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001

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North Pacific Species List
North Pacific
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1908

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habitat

World Register of Marine Species
marine benthic
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000024

Definition: The marine benthic biome (benthic meaning 'bottom') encompasses the seafloor and includes such areas as shores, littoral or intertidal areas, marine coral reefs, and the deep seabed.

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latitude

OBIS environmental data records

53.1 degrees

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

52.35 degrees

(min)

locomotion

Smith 1937
crawling
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000363

Definition: Behavior related to the movement resulting by dragging the body close to the ground or substrate

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longitude

OBIS environmental data records

-131.35 degrees

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

-130.92 degrees

(max)

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
high-magnesium calcite
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/highMgCalcite

Definition: Calcium carbonate minerals containing high proportions of magnesium ions. At least 8 mole-% MgCO3.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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motility

Queirós et al 2013
burrower
URI: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/terms/MOB_BUR

Definition: An organism that lives or moves in a burrow in soft sediments.

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number of records in gbif

GBIF data coverage

33

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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skeleton structure

World Register of Marine Species
endoskeleton
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0010362

Definition: internal support structure of an animal, composed of mineralized tissue.

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World Register of Marine Species
condensed
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001485

Definition: A structural quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being thicker or more closely packed together; pressed tightly together.

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trophic guild

ecology literature
omnivore
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509

Comment: Auto-added during harvest #1048. A human needs to edit this.

Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
omnivore
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509

Comment: Auto-added during harvest #1048. A human needs to edit this.

Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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type specimen repository

GBIF national node type records France
museum national d'histoire naturelle (mnhn)
URI: http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988

Definition: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France. URL for main institutional website: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/science/science/sommaire.xsp

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water depth

OBIS environmental data records

75 m

(max)

water dissolved o2 concentration

OBIS environmental data records

6.561 mL/L

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

6.561 mL/L

(max)

water nitrate concentration

OBIS environmental data records

6.725 µmol/l

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

6.725 µmol/l

(max)

water o2 saturation

OBIS environmental data records

101.722 percent

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

101.722 percent

(max)

water phosphate concentration

OBIS environmental data records

0.943 µmol/l

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

0.943 µmol/l

(max)

water salinity

OBIS environmental data records

31.893 psu

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

31.893 psu

(min)

water silicate concentration

OBIS environmental data records

15.658 µmol/l

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

15.658 µmol/l

(min)

water temperature

OBIS environmental data records

10.151 degrees celsius

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

10.151 degrees celsius

(min)