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Echinoidea taxon details

Heliocidaris australiae (A. Agassiz, 1872)

595766  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:595766)

accepted
Species
Pachechinus australiae (A. Agassiz, 1872) · unaccepted (transferred to Heliocidaris)
Pachycentrotus australiae (A. Agassiz, 1872) · unaccepted (transferred to Heliocidaris)
Sphærechinus australiae A. Agassiz, 1872 · unaccepted (transferred to Heliocidaris)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Sphærechinus australiae A. Agassiz, 1872) Agassiz, A. 1872. Preliminary Notice of a few Species of Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 3, 55-58., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6705306
page(s): 55-56 [details]   
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2024). World Echinoidea Database. Heliocidaris australiae (A. Agassiz, 1872). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=595766 on 2024-04-19
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original description  (of Sphærechinus australiae A. Agassiz, 1872) Agassiz, A. 1872. Preliminary Notice of a few Species of Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 3, 55-58., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6705306
page(s): 55-56 [details]   

new combination reference Hart, M. W., Jeffrey, C. H. & Emlet, R. B. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of echinometrid sea urchins: more species of Heliocidaris with derived modes of reproduction. Invertebrate Biology 130, 175-185.
page(s): 183 [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
New combination Analyses of mitochondrial COI and bindin sequences showed that Heliocidaris is paraphyletic by exclusion of Pachechinus. Therefore, Hart et al. (2011, p. 183), consider Pachechinus a subjectiv junior synonym of Heliocidaris. [details]

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