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Colobocentrotus Brandt, 1835 
AphiaID: 179654

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Colobocentrotus mertensii Brandt, 1835 (type by monotypy)
Parent Echinometridae Gray, 1855
Synonymised
taxa		  Colobocentrus (misspelling)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: 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]

from synonym: Smith, A. B. & Kroh, A. (editor) 2011. The Echinoid Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory, available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory [details] [view taxon]

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[show all]		 Subgenus Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) Brandt, 1835
  » Species Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii Brandt, 1835
Subgenus Colobocentrotus (Podophora) L. Agassiz, 1840a
  » Species Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
» Species Colobocentrotus (Podophora) pedifer (Blainville, 1825)

Species Colobocentrotus mertensii Brandt, 1835 represented as Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii Brandt, 1835 (alternate representation)

Species Colobocentrotus atrata (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Colobocentrotus atratus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Colobocentrotus leskei Brandt, 1835 accepted as Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii Brandt, 1835
Species Colobocentrotus martensii accepted as Colobocentrotus mertensii Brandt, 1835 represented as Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii Brandt, 1835
Species Colobocentrotus pedifer (Blainville, 1825) accepted as Colobocentrotus (Podophora) pedifer (Blainville, 1825)
Species Colobocentrotus stimpsoni A. Agassiz, 1908 accepted as Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii Brandt, 1835
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Echinoid Directory
To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:179654
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-24 08:04:51Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2006-09-08 06:50:23Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-06 12:28:48Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2011-12-19 21:15:59Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Colobocentrotus Brandt, 1835. 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=179654 on 2013-05-18
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