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Echinoidea taxon details

Prionocidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 214643

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Cidaroidea (Subclass) > Cidaroida (Order) > Cidaridea (Superfamily) > Cidaridae (Family) > Stylocidarinae (Subfamily) > Prionocidaris (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (transferred to Plococidaris)
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Accepted name  Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816)
Rank Species
Parent Prionocidaris A. Agassiz, 1863
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: Bell, F. J. 1909. Report on the echinoderma (other than holothurians) collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the western parts of the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 13, 17-22., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55291#page/35/mode/1up [details]

basis of record: Mortensen, T. (1931). Echinodermata. Faune des colonies francaises 4: 590-596. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Seychelles [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]

Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Attribute Fossil range: Phanerozoic > Paleozoic > Permian > Cisuralian (298.9±0.2 Ma) (inherited from Cidaroida) [details]
Fossil range: Phanerozoic > Cenozoic > Quaternary > Holocene (0.0117 Ma) (inherited from Cidaroida) [details]
Functional group: benthos » Stage: adult (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Functional group: plankton » Stage: larva (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Notes  Description: Colour in life: junble green with surrounding whorl of secondary spines grey (Humphreys, 1981). Description: verticillate primary spines with 3 or 4 thorny whorls (Sastry, 1997).
Also distributed in Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-54 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Holotype: Holotype (probable) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle EcEs309. Type locality: unknown (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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Prionocidaris verticillata
Prionocidaris verticillata
added on 2008-12-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214643
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-04-03 13:19:51Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2000-09-22 07:17:05Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2011-04-21 13:50:57Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Prionocidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816). 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=214643 on 2013-06-19
  

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