WoRMS taxon details
Arbacia crassispina Mortensen, 1910
AphiaID: 513123
AphiaID: 513123
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Arbacioida (Order) > Arbaciidae (Family) > Arbacia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (subjective junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Arbacia dufresnii (Blainville, 1825) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Arbacia Gray, 1835 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Mortensen, T. 1910. The Echinoidea of the Swedish South Polar Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar Expedition 6/4, 1-114., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29751#page/209/mode/1up page(s): 32-36 [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1935. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, pp. 647. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London. page(s): 580 [details] redescription: Mortensen, T. 1941. Echinoderms of Tristan de Cunha. Pp. 1-10 in Results Norwegian Scientific Expedition Tristan da Cunha 1937-38 page(s): 7-8 [details] status source: Lessios, H. A., Lockhart, S., Collin, R., Sotil, G., Sanchez-Jerez, P., Zigler, K. S., Perez, A. F., Garrido, M. J., Geyer, L. B., Bernardi, G., Vaquier, V. D., Haroun, R. & Kessing, B. D. 2012. Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution. Molecular Ecology 21, 130-144., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05303.x page(s): 140 [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To The echinoderms of Panama LifeDesks | ||||||||||
| Note |
Status: Lessios et al. (2012: p. 140) state that: "There seems to be little doubt that A. crassispina and A. dufresni are not separate species, as the two morphs are not distinct in the phylogeny of either the mitochondrial or the nuclear gene. The morphological differences between the two nominal species are so slight, that Clark (1925) questioned whether they could be maintained as separate species. Mortensen (1935 [p. 580]), the author of A. crassispina, agreed that it may be a local variety of A. dufresni, but then changed his mind (Mortensen 1941 [p. 7-8])." Although Lessios et al. (2012) do not formally synonymize the two species, the evidence presented for the identity of the two taxa seems very strong and they are thus treated as synonyms here. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513123 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Arbacia crassispina Mortensen, 1910. 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=513123 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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