Phormosoma bursarium A. Agassiz, 1881 
AphiaID: 214650

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Echinothurioida (Order) > Phormosomatidae (Family) > Phormosoma (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Phormosoma Thomson, 1872b
Synonymised taxa		Phormosoma indicum Döderlein, 1905 (subjective junior synonym)
Sources		basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1977). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude cruises, part 4: Echinoderms. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 73(6):; 133-147. [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1935. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, pp. 647. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London. page(s): 135-142 [details] additional source: McKnight, D. (2009). Echinoidea (Echinodermata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Bounty and Antipodes Islands [details] Campbell Island [details] Cape Howe [details] Central New Zealand [details] Chatham Island [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Northeastern New Zealand [details] Snares Island [details] South Africa (country) [details] South New Zealand [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Attribute		Functional group: benthos » Stage: adult (inherited from Echinodermata) [details] Functional group: plankton » Stage: larva (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Notes		Ecology: Ecology: benthic, continental slope. General distribution: tropical, temperate, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 170-2340 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Remark: Syntype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 837. Type locality: off Mindanao, Phillipes, 466 m (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214650
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1999-06-07 19:50:04Z   created   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2000-09-29 13:20:33Z   changed   Garcia, Maria 2008-12-24 14:27:32Z   changed   Decock, Wim 2010-09-07 10:47:00Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas 2011-04-08 07:45:14Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Phormosoma bursarium A. Agassiz, 1881. 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=214650 on 2013-06-19