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Echinoidea taxon details

Echinus melo Lamarck, 1816 
AphiaID: 124294

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 accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Echinus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS[details]

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): 53-57 [details]


additional source: Agassiz, A. 1863. List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 1, 17-28. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Aegean Sea [details]
Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Central Mediterranean [details]
Cornwall [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Lossini [details]
Marseille [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Nice [details]
North Rona [details]
Portugal [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]

Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (150 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
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Attribute Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
Notes  Authority: Sherborn has Olivi, 1792 as author [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124294
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
  
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  Citation: Hansson, H. (2013). Echinus melo Lamarck, 1816. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124294 on 2013-05-18
  

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