| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Heterocentrotus Brandt, 1835 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Echinus mammillatus Linnaeus, 1758 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
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| Sources | |
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]
from synonym: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 409-420 [details] [view taxon]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
slate pencil urchin |
[details] |
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German |
Griffel-Seeigel |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent + fossil |
| Distribution | | Aqaba [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Marsa Shagra [details]
Mascarene Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
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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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| Note | |
Spelling: This species has alternatingly been spelled mammillatus/mamillata in the literature. Linné (1758: p. 664)) established the species as Echinus mamillatus, and consistently used mamillatus/mamillata with one "m". The confusion dates back to the work of Gmelin (1778: p. 3175), who was the first to use the variant with two "m".
Gramatically both variants are correct (contratry to the statement of Mortensen, 1943: p. 419): mamillatus with one "m" when the name is derived from Latin "mamilla" (= nipple), mammillatus with two "m" would be correct if the name is derived from Latin "mamma" (= breast). There are numerous other species named "mamillatus" with a single "m" in various groups ranging from nematods to insects.
Summing up, "mamillatus" is the unambiguous original spelling and is grammatically correct and thus the correct name for this species. "mammillatus", in contrast, is an incorrect subsequent spelling (nothing in Gmelin, 1778 suggests an intentional change, i.e. an emendation). [details]
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| Images | | 
[image from synonym]
Heterocentrotus mammillatus
added on 2008-11-09 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Heterocentrotus mamillatus
added on 2011-04-11 - author: Kroh, Andreas
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2011-04-11 09:32:01 |
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Heterocentrotus mamillatus stamp
added on 2011-10-31 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2011-12-27 15:20:57 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:568045 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Heterocentrotus mamillatus (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=568045 on 2013-05-25 |
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