WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Echinometra blainvillii Des Moulins, 1837) des Moulins, C. 1837. Troisième Mémoire sur les Échinides. - Synonymie générale. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 9, 45-364.
, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32866957 page(s): 110-113; pl. 50: figs 1-6 [details]
original description
(of Echinus castaneus Perry, 1810) Perry G. (1810-1811). <i>Arcana: or the Museum of Natural History</i>. pls. 1-48 (= 1810), pls. 49-84 (= 1811), unnumbered text pages. London: James Stratford. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045115 page(s): unpaginated [scan page 209-210 in BHL]; pl. [34] [details]
original description
(of Echinus mamillatus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 page(s): 664-665 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Echinometra (Acrocladia) planispina von Martens, 1886) Martens, E. von. 1866. Verzeichniss der von Dr. E. Schweinfurth 1864 auf seiner Reise am Rothen Meere gesammelten und nach Berlin eingesendeten zoologischen Gegenstände. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 16. p. 377-382, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26723604 page(s): 381-382 [details]
original description
(of Echinus carinatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522 page(s): 98 [details]
original description
(of Acrocladia hastifera L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) Agassiz, L. & Desor, P. J. E. 1846. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres, et des espèces de la classe des échinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie 6, 305-374., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13408315 page(s): 373 [details]
original description
(of Acrocladia serialis Perrier, 1869) Perrier, E. (1869). Recherche sur les pédicellaires et les ambulacres des astérides et des oursins. <em>Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles Victor Masson et fils, Paris.</em> 5-188, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13976641 page(s): 165; pl. 6: fig. 5a-c [details]
original description
(of Echinus (Heterocentrotus) postelsii Brandt, 1835) Brandt, J. F. (1835). Prodromus descriptionis Animalium ab H. Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione observatorum, Petropooli. Fasc. I: 203-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514 page(s): 265 [65 in reprint version] [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling This species has alternatingly been spelled mammillatus/mamillata in the literature. Linné (1758: p. 664)) established the species as Echinus mamillatus, and consistently used mamillatus/mamillata with one "m". The confusion dates back to the work of Gmelin (1778: p. 3175), who was the first to use the variant with two "m".
Gramatically both variants are correct (contratry to the statement of Mortensen, 1943: p. 419): mamillatus with one "m" when the name is derived from Latin "mamilla" (= nipple), mammillatus with two "m" would be correct if the name is derived from Latin "mamma" (= breast). There are numerous other species named "mamillatus" with a single "m" in various groups ranging from nematods to insects.
Summing up, "mamillatus" is the unambiguous original spelling and is grammatically correct and thus the correct name for this species. "mammillatus", in contrast, is an incorrect subsequent spelling (nothing in Gmelin, 1778 suggests an intentional change, i.e. an emendation). [details]
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Echinometra (Acrocladia) planispina von Martens, 1886)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Heterocentrotus carinatus (Blainville, 1825))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Echinus carinatus Blainville, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heterocentrotus mammillatus) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 36 proteins) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To MNHN Type collection (IE 2013-10545) (from synonym Echinometra hastifera (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (112 records) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 010389.EC) (from synonym Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 080324)
ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:332B1A09-1E8B-4B03-A260-0F674B21B37B (from synonym Echinus mamillatus Linnaeus, 1758)
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