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Echinus gracilis A. Agassiz, 1869 
AphiaID: 422491

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Echinidae (Family) > Echinus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (transferred to Gracilechinus)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Gracilechinus gracilis (A. Agassiz, 1869)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Gracilechinus Fell & Pawson, in Moore, 1966
Parent Echinus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Pseudechinus gracilis (A. Agassiz, 1869) (unaccepted combination)
Sources  basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 70-74 [details]


basis of record: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:422491
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2010-10-14 14:36:33Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinus gracilis A. Agassiz, 1869. 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=422491 on 2013-06-20
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