WoRMS taxon details
Echinometra mathaei oblonga (Blainville, 1825)
AphiaID: 513718
AphiaID: 513718
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family) > Echinometra (Genus) > Echinometra mathaei (Species) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Subspecies | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825) | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echinometra oblonga (Blainville, 1825) (accepted at subspecies rank) Echinus oblonga Blainville, 1825 (transferred to Echinometra) Ellipsechinus oblongus (Blainville, 1825) (transferred to Echinometra) Mortensenia oblonga (Blainville, 1825) (transferred to Echinometra) | |||||||||||||
| 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): 393-395 [details] additional source: Landry, C., Geyer, L. B., Arakaki, Y., Uehara, T. & Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Recent speciation in the Indo-West Pacific: rapid evolution of gamete recognition and sperm morphology in cryptic species of sea urchin. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 270, 1839-1847., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2395 [details] additional source: Arakaki, Y. & Uehara, T. 1999. Morphological comparison of black Echinometra individuals among those in the Indo-West Pacific. Zoological Science Tokyo 16, 551-558., available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.2108/zsj.16.551 [details] additional source: Arakaki, Y., Uehara, T. & Fagoonee, I. 1998. Comparative studies of the genus Echinometra from Okinawa and Mauritius. Zoological Science Tokyo 15, 159-168. , available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2108/zsj.15.159 [details] from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Panamanian part of the North Pacific Ocean (not certain) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Status: Contrary to Mortensen's (1943) treatment as subspecies of Echinometra mathaei, E. oblonga is currently accepted at species level by the echinoderm community (based on the genetic and morphological research carried out by Arakaki, Palumbi and colleagues). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513718 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinometra mathaei oblonga (Blainville, 1825). 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=513718 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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