Brissus latecarinatus (Leske, 1778) 
AphiaID: 213575

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Brissidae (Family) > Brissus (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Brissus Gray, 1825
Synonymised taxa		Brissus carinatus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym) Brissus maculatus Studer, 1889 (subjective junior synonym) Brissus maculosus Bolau, 1863 (subjective junior synonym) Spatangus (Brissus) latecarinatus Leske, 1778 (transferred to Brissus) Spatangus carinatus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Spatangus vulgaris Lamarck, 1801 (subjective junior synonym)
Sources		basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 514-518 [details] from synonym: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] West Indian Ocean [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life 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		Description: Also distributed in Marshall Islands (Clark, 1954), Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995), Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-45 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). [details] Remark: In Subgenus (Brissus) Gray, 1825. Type locality: unknown. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213575
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-02-03 23:00:00Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-22 07:17:05Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2010-09-07 10:47:00Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Brissus latecarinatus (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=213575 on 2013-05-21