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Arbacia punctulata (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 158058

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Arbacioida (Order) > Arbaciidae (Family) > Arbacia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Arbacia Gray, 1835
Synonymised
taxa
  Anapesus carolinus Holmes, 1869 (subjective junior synonym)
Arbacea punctulata (misspelling for Arbacia punctulata)
Echinocidaris (Agarites) punctulata (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris davisii A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris punctulata (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus punctulatus Lamarck, 1816 (transferred to Arbacia)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1935. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, pp. 647. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 573-575 [details]


additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details]

additional source: Lessios, H. A., Lockhart, S., Collin, R., Sotil, G., Sanchez-Jerez, P., Zigler, K. S., Perez, A. F., Garrido, M. J., Geyer, L. B., Bernardi, G., Vaquier, V. D., Haroun, R. & Kessing, B. D. 2012. Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution. Molecular Ecology 21, 130-144., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05303.x [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English purple-spined sea urchin  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belize [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Dominican Republic [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Panama [details]
Trinidad and Tobago [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (242 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To The echinoderms of Panama LifeDesks
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158058
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Arbacia punctulata (Lamarck, 1816). 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=158058 on 2013-05-22
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