original description
Agassiz, A. (1898). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galápagos, to the the west coast of México, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission Streamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. XXIII. Preliminary report on the Echini. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 32, 71-86., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30426278#page/185/mode/1up
page(s): 80; pl. 12: figs 1-7 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Mortensen, T. (1950). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 1. Spatangoida I. Protosternata, Meridosternata, Amphisternata I. Palæopneustidæ, Palæostomatidæ, Aëropsidæ, Toxasteridæ, Micrasteridæ, Hemiasteridæ, 432 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 227-228 [details]
status source
Schultz, H. (2009). Sea Urchins II: worldwide irregular deep water species. <em>Heinke & Peter Schultz Partner, Hemdingen.</em> x+501-849 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 683; Fig. 1161 [details]
Syntype MCZ 2839, geounit Cocos Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Schultz (2009: p. 683) states "Mortensen 1950 believed the two genera [Argopatagus and Phrissocystis] synonymous", however, Mortensen (1950) formally treated them as different. [details]