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Echinoidea taxon details

Nacospatangus alta (A. Agassiz, 1863) 
AphiaID: 513408

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Spatangidea (Superfamily) > Maretiidae (Family) > Nacospatangus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Nacospatangus A. Agassiz, 1873
Synonymised
taxa
  Maretia alta A. Agassiz, 1863 (transferred to Nacospatangus)
Pseudomaretia alta (A. Agassiz, 1863) (transferred to Nacospatangus)
Sources  redescription: 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): 58-62 [details]


from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cargados Carajos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]

Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Attribute Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513408
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2010-09-07 08:24:41Z  created  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Nacospatangus alta (A. Agassiz, 1863). 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=513408 on 2013-05-24
  

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