Diadema africana Rodríguez, Hernández & Clemente, 2010 
AphiaID: 716530

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Acroechinoidea (Infraclass) > Diadematoida (Order) > Diadematidae (Family) > Diadema (Genus)

Status		nomen nudum
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Diadema Gray, 1825
Sources		basis of record: Vita Roldán, H.D. 2011. Influencia de un campo magnético débil en el comportamiento de Diadema aff. antillarum (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Anales Universitarios de Etología, 5, 72-77., available online at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/etologia/revista2011/Vita%20Rodal,%20Hermes%20(72-77).pdf [details] basis of record: Hernández, J.C., Clemente, S., Tuya, F., Pérez-Ruzafa, A., Sangil, C., Moro-Abad, L. & Bacallado-Aránega, J.J. 2013. Echinoderms of the Canary Islands, Spain. In: J.J. Alvarado & F.A. Solís-Marín (eds), Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America, pp. 471-510. Springer; Berlin & Heidelberg. page(s): 487 [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution
Attribute		Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Note		Status: The Canary Island population of Diadema was considered to be specifically different from Diadema antillarum and consistently named Diadema aff. antillarum in a number of papers on various aspects of the biology of that population. From 2011 onwards some papers used the name "Diadema africana" for this population, but we were unable to trace this back to a published description fulfilling the requirements of the Code. Consequently the name "Diadema africana" appears to be currently unavailable. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716530
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2013-01-24 11:46:56Z   created   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Diadema africana Rodríguez, Hernández & Clemente, 2010. 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=716530 on 2013-05-20