Echinus atratus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 220987

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

Status		unaccepted (transferred to Podophora)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Podophora atrata (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank		Species
Parent		Echinus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources		original description: 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] 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): 434-439 [details] source of synonymy: Clark, A.H. (1954). Records of Indo-Pacific Echinoderms. Pacific Science, 8: 243-263. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution
Link		ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0B2D0342-845F-4C9A-964A-6C7EA2E770BD
Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Note		synonymy: Original combination [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220987
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2000-09-07 07:15:45Z   created   Garcia, Maria 2005-06-22 17:01:53Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2010-10-17 19:35:08Z   checked   Kroh, Andreas 2011-04-04 10:50:57Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinus atratus 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=220987 on 2013-05-25