WoRMS taxon details
original description
Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. <em>Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514 page(s): 65 [details]
original description
(of Echinus (Heterocentrotus) 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 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Original description Different version of the work containing the original description exist, differing in the pagination; in one version Heterocentrotus is described on p. 65, in the other version on p. 265 [details]
Type species Mortensen (1943) lists Heterocentrotus mamillatus as type species, but this is not one of the originally included names, which are:
Echinus (Heterocentrotus) carinatus (Blainville, 1825)
Echinus (Heterocentrotus) postelsii Brandt, 1835
Echinus (Heterocentrotus) taenitanus Brandt, 1835 [details]From other sources
Remark Type species: Echinus mammillatus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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