Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 213385

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family) > Heterocentrotus (Genus)

Status		unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Heterocentrotus mamillatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank		Species
Parent		Heterocentrotus Brandt, 1835
Synonymised taxa		Acrocladia blainvillei (Des Moulins, 1837) (unjustified emendation) Acrocladia blainvillii (Des Moulins, 1837) (subjective junior synonym) Acrocladia hastifera (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1844) (subjective junior synonym) Acrocladia mamillata (misspelling for Acrocladia mammillata) Acrocladia mammillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Acrocladia planispina von Martens, 1886 (subjective junior synonym) Acrocladia serialis Perrier, 1869 (subjective junior synonym) Cidaris mammillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Echinometra (Acrocladia) planispina von Martens, 1886 (subjective junior synonym) Echinometra (Acrocladia) planissima von Martens, 1886 (incorrect original spelling) Echinometra blainvillii Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym) Echinometra carinata (Blainville, 1825) (subjective junior synonym) Echinometra hastifera Eydoux & Souleyet, 1844 (subjective junior synonym) Echinometra mammillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Echinus carinatus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus castaneus Parry, 1810 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus mamillatus Linnaeus, 1758 (transferred to Heterocentrotus) Heterocentrotus carinatus (Blainville, 1825) (subjective junior synonym) Heterocentrotus postelsii Brandt, 1835 (subjective junior synonym) Heterocentrus mamillatus (misspelling for Heterocentrotus mammillatus)
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: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 409-420 [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Distribution		Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Host of		Clavisodalis abbreviatus Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Clavisodalis tenuis Dojiri & Humes, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mecomerinx heterocentroti Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Senariellus latiseta Humes, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS
Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Notes		Authority: Authority given as '(Klein)' in Mortensen (1931) and as 'Agassiz' in Decary (1924). Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: unkown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Description: Also distributed in Tuamotus, Saipan, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Image		Heterocentrotus mammillatus added on 2008-11-09 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213385
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-25 07:20:28Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2010-09-07 10:47:00Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas 2011-04-11 06:53:58Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=213385 on 2013-05-22