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Brissopsis alta Mortensen, 1907 
AphiaID: 422509

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Brissidae (Family) > Brissopsinae (Subfamily) > Brissopsis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Brissopsis L. Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1847
Synonymised
taxa		  Brissoma altum (Mortensen, 1907) (unaccepted combination)
Sources  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]

basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 390-392 [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:422509
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-07 10:47:00Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Brissopsis alta Mortensen, 1907. 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=422509 on 2013-06-19
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