WoRMS taxon details
Brissopsis lyrifera (Forbes, 1841)
AphiaID: 124373
AphiaID: 124373
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Brissidae (Family) > Brissopsinae (Subfamily) > Brissopsis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Brissopsis L. Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Brissoma lyriferum (Forbes, 1841) (transferred to Brissopsis) Brissopsis lyrifer (Forbes, 1841) (misspelling for Brissopsis lyrifera) Brissopsis parma Val., 18?? (non-existing name ?, see notes) Brissopsis pulvinatus (Düben & Koren, 1844) (subjective junior synonym) Brissus lyrifer Forbes, 1841 (transferred to Brissopsis) Brissus pulvinatus Düben & Koren, 1844 (subjective junior synonym) Brissus pulvinatus Philippi, 1845 (subjective junior synonym) Schizaster incertus Aradas, 1850 (subjective junior synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 380-390 [details] basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Brissopsis lyrifera capensis Mortensen, 1907 Subspecies Brissopsis lyrifera lyrifera (Forbes, 1841) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Adriatic Sea [details] Aegean Sea [details] Agulhas Bank [details] Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bohuslän [details] British Isles [details] Central Mediterranean [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Eastern North America [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Iceland [details] Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kattegat [details] Levantine Basin [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norway [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Öresund [details] South Coast of Africa [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Western Mediterranean [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Micropontius ovoides Gooding, 1957 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (197 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: From 5 to more than 200 m depth, burrowing in mud or muddy sand, all round the British Isles, except the English Channel [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124373 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hansson, H. (2013). Brissopsis lyrifera (Forbes, 1841). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124373 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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