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Phyllacanthus imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 179611

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Cidaroidea (Subclass) > Cidaroida (Order) > Cidaridea (Superfamily) > Cidaridae (Family) > Phyllacanthina (Tribe) > Phyllacanthus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Phyllacanthus Brandt, 1835
Synonymised
taxa
  Cidaris (Phyllacanthus) imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Phyllacanthus)
Cidaris fustigera (A. Agassiz, 1963) (unaccepted combination)
Cidaris imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Phyllacanthus)
Cidaris imperialis fustigera (A. Agassiz, 1863) (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites imperialis Lamarck, 1816
Leiocidaris imperialis (Lamarck, 1816)
Phyllacanthus fustigera A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Phyllacanthus fustigerus A. Agassiz, 1863 (incorrect original spelling (mandatory changed according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 31.2.))
Rhabdocidaris imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Phyllacanthus)
Sources  basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1928b. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea, pp. 551. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 504-509 [details]


basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]

basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Mortensen, T. (1931). Echinodermata. Faune des colonies francaises 4: 590-596. [details]

basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

basis of record: Agassiz, A. 1863. List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 1, 17-28. [details] [full text]

additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English imperial urchin  [details]
English pencil urchin  [details]
English tiara-urchin  [details]
German Sputnik-Seeigel  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aldabra [details]
East India Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique [details]
New Holland (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nuweiba [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tongareva (not certain[details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
Zanzibar [details]
Host of  Pseudanthessius implanus Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudanthessius procurrens Humes, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications)
To Cook Islands Biodiversity Database
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Distribution: New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: tropical , Indo-Pacific Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Identification: Has previously been confounded as Cidaris imperialis. [details]

Type locality: Red Sea (Rowe & Gates, 1995) [details]
Images 
Phyllacanthus imperialis
Phyllacanthus imperialis
added on 2011-02-02 - author: Paulay, Gustav
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2011-02-02 23:30:06

Phyllacanthus imperialis
Phyllacanthus imperialis
added on 2011-02-02 - author: Paulay, Gustav
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2011-02-02 23:30:35
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:179611
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-08-24 08:04:51Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2010-09-07 10:14:26Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Phyllacanthus imperialis (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=179611 on 2013-05-22
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