WoRMS taxon details
Dermechinus horridus (A. Agassiz, 1879)
AphiaID: 160803
AphiaID: 160803
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Echinidae (Family) > Dermechinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Dermechinus Mortensen, 1942 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echinus horridus A. Agassiz, 1879 Pseudechinus horridus (A. Agassiz, 1879) (transferred to Dermechinus) Sterechinus horridus (A. Agassiz, 1879) (transferred to Dermechinus) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1974). Notes on some echinoderms from southern Africa. Bulluetin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 26(6): 423-487, 3 pls, 16 figs, 1 map, 3 tables (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 112-117 [details] additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: David, B., T. Choné, A. Festeau & C. de Ridder (2004). Antarctic Echinoids, an Interactive Database. Editions Universitaires Dijon. Cd Rom. (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Agulhas Bank [details] Amsterdam-St Paul [details] Auckland Island [details] Bassian [details] Bounty and Antipodes Islands [details] Cape Howe [details] Central New Zealand [details] Channels and Fjords of Southern Chile [details] Chatham Island [details] Crozet Islands [details] Crozet Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Heard and Macdonald Islands [details] Heard and McDonald Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indian Ocean [details] Kaikoura District [details] Kerguelen Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Kerguelen Islands [details] Leeuwin [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Northeastern New Zealand [details] Snares Island [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Ecology: Ecology: benthic, continental slope. General distribution: temperate, discontinuous (South Africa, New Zealand, Chile), depth range 180-560 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Remark: Syntype Museum of comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 1164. Type locality: off Tom Bay, southern Chile, 320 m (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160803 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Dermechinus horridus (A. Agassiz, 1879). 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=160803 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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