Echinodiscus bisperforatus Leske, 1778 
AphiaID: 212460

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Neognathostomata (Superorder) > Clypeasteroida (Order) > Scutellina (Suborder) > Scutelliformes (Infraorder) > Scutellidea (Superfamily) > Astriclypeidae (Family) > Echinodiscus (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Echinodiscus Leske, 1778
Synonymised taxa		Echinodiscus bifora (Gmelin, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Echinodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Echinus biforis Gmelin, 1778 (subjective junior synonym) Lobophora bifora (Gmelin, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Lobophora biforis (Gmelin, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Scutella bifora (Gmelin, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Scutella biforis (Gmelin, 1778) (subjective junior synonym) Scutella bilinearifora Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym) Tetrodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1778) Tetrodiscus bisperforatus (Leske, 1778) (unaccepted combination)
Sources		basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): 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] basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ, pp. 471. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 406-410 [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Echinodiscus bisperforatus bisperforatus Leske, 1778 Subspecies Echinodiscus bisperforatus truncatus (L. Agassiz, 1841)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] South Africa (country) [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Notes		Description: Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] Type locality: Type locality: unknown. Type species of the genus Echinodiscus Leske, 1778 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212460
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-29 13:20:33Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2010-09-07 10:47:00Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinodiscus bisperforatus Leske, 1778. 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=212460 on 2013-05-25