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Nudechinus multicolor (Yoshiwara, 1898) 
AphiaID: 214672

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Toxopneustidae (Family) > Nudechinus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Nudechinus H.L. Clark, 1912
Synonymised
taxa		  Echinus multicolor Yoshiwara, 1898 (transferred to Nudechinus)
Sources  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: 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): 408-410 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Red Sea [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Description: Also distributed in north Australia and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, presumably west Pacific Ocean, presumably from shallow waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: Mortensen (1943) coments that until further material besides the type is available from Japan, the identification of material from other areas remains uncertain (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Satsuma, southern Japan (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214672
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-04-03 13:19:51Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Nudechinus multicolor (Yoshiwara, 1898). 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=214672 on 2013-05-25
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