WoRMS taxon details
Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 367850
AphiaID: 367850
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Toxopneustidae (Family) > Lytechinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Lytechinus A. Agassiz, 1863 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Anapesus blainvillei (Des Moulins, 1837) (subjective junior synonym) Echinus blainvillei Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus excavatus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus variegatus Lamarck, 1816 (transferred to Lytechinus) Lytechinus excavatus (Blainville, 1825) (subjective junior synonym) Lytechinus thieryi Koehler, 1927 (subjective junior synonym) Lytechinus thiéryi Koehler, 1927 (incorrect original spelling (mandatory changed according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 32.5.2.1.)) Psammechinus excavatus (Blainville, 1825) (subjective junior synonym) Psammechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Lytechinus) Psilechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Lytechinus) Schizechinus excavatus (Blainville, 1825) (subjective junior synonym) Schizechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Lytechinus) Toxopneustes atlanticus (A. Agassiz, 1863) (subjective junior synonym) Toxopneustes variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Lytechinus) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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): 437-446 [details] status source: Zigler, K. S. & Lessios, H. A. 2004. Speciation on the coasts of the New World: phylogeography and the evolution of bindin in the sea urchin genus Lytechinus. Evolution 58, 1225-1241., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01702.x [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus carolinus A. Agassiz, 1863 Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus atlanticus A. Agassiz, 1863 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus typicus H.L. Clark, 1912 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Haiti [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Asterocheres simulans (Scott T., 1898) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Macrochiron echinicolum Humes & Stock, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (74 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (504263 nucleotides; 231 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To The echinoderms of Panama LifeDesks To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367850 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Lytechinus variegatus (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=367850 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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