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Echinoidea taxon details

Ellipsechinus lukunter (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 214458

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family) > Ellipsechinus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
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Accepted name  Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Ellipsechinus Lütken, 1864 accepted as Echinometra Gray, 1825
Sources  basis of record: Lambert, J. 1921. Échinides vivants et fossiles recueillis à Madagascar par M. Raymond Decary. Mémoires de la Société Académique d'Agriculture des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du Département de l'Aube, Troisième Série, 58-59 (1921-1922)/(Vols. 85-86 of the whole series), 13-55.
page(s): 39 [details]


source of synonymy: Clark, A.M. and J.D. Taylor. (1971). Echinoderms from Diego Garcia. Atoll Research Bulletin. 149: 89-92. [details]

source of synonymy: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution Madagascar (probably not valid[details]

Attribute Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
Notes  Authority: Sometimes incorrectly attributed to Leske, 1778 (e.g. Lambert, 1921: p. 39) [details]

Distribution: Incorrectly repored from Eastern Africa by Bell (1884), Ludwig (1899), and Lambert (1921: p. 39) - these records are likely based on a misidentifications of E. mathaei or E. oblonga; E. lucunter is restricted to the Caribbean & Atlantic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214458
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Date   action   by
2000-09-05 07:12:54Z  created  Garcia, Maria
2005-06-22 17:01:53Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-05-30 07:28:58Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Ellipsechinus lukunter (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=214458 on 2013-05-23
  

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