WoRMS taxon details
Mespilia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 214476
AphiaID: 214476
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Temnopleuridea (Infraorder) > Temnopleuridae (Family) > Mespilia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Mespilia Desor, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cidaris granulata Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus alternantus Deslongchamps, 1824 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus globulus Linnaeus, 1758 (transferred to Mespilia) Echinus punctiferus Deslongchamps, 1824 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus versicolor Valenciennes in A. Agassiz, 1841 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia globula (Linnaeus, 1758) (incorrect declination of species name) Mespilia globulus albida H.L. Clark, 1925 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia globulus pellorica H.L. Clark, 1912 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia globulus whithmaei H.L. Clark, 1925 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia levituberculatus Yoshiwara, 1898 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia microtuberculata Lambert & Thiéry, 1910 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia whitei Lambert & Thiéry, 1910 (subjective junior synonym) Mespilia whitmaei Bell, 1881 (subjective junior synonym) Salmacopsis pulchellimus Yoshiwara, 1898 (subjective junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Loisette, M.M. & J.I. Marshall (1983). Some aspects of the Zoogeography of Northwestern Australian Echinoderms (other than Holothurians), Bull. of Marine Science, 33(3): 671-684 [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ, pp. vii+553. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 177-186 [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Mespilia globulus albida H.L. Clark, 1925 accepted as Mespilia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Mespilia globulus pellorica H.L. Clark, 1912 accepted as Mespilia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies Mespilia globulus whithmaei H.L. Clark, 1925 accepted as Mespilia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Red Sea [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Also distributed in New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman and Nicobar Ils., India (Sastry, 1997). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, east Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-60 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Indian Ocean (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Authority spelled as 'Linné' in Clark (1954) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214476 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Mespilia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=214476 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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