Echinoidea taxon details
Echinus lithophagus Leach, in Tilloch, 1812 AphiaID: 547912
| Status | |  unaccepted (nomen nudum) |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Echinus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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original description: Leach, W. E. 1812. [Echinus lithophagus]. Pp. 130-152 in Tilloch, A. (ed.) XXI. Proceedings of Learned Societies. The Philosophical Magazine: comprehending the various branches of science, the liberal and fine arts, agriculture, manufactures and commerce 39, 130-152., available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/lepidopterarepor39winc#page/151/mode/2up
page(s): 151 [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | type locality: Bantry Bay [details]
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| Attribute | | Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: larva
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| Notes | |
Original description: "At the same meeting, also, Mr. Leach gave a description of a new British species of Echinus, which he had observed in plenty at Bantry Bay in Ireland, and which he proposed to call E. lithophagus, from the circumstance of its forming a small hollow for itself in the substance of the submarine rocks."
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Status: The "original description" does not include any description or definition and thus fails to satisfy the provisions of ICZN 4th ed. Article 12.1. [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:547912 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Echinus lithophagus Leach, in Tilloch, 1812. 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=547912 on 2013-05-23 |
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