Echinoidea taxon details
original description
(of Echinus multicolor Yoshiwara, 1898) Yoshiwara, S. 1898. Preliminary notice of new Japanese echinoids. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 2, 57-61., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44266821 page(s): 60 [details]
basis of record
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
additional source
Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ. vii+553 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 408-410 [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
From other sources
Description Also distributed in north Australia and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, presumably west Pacific Ocean, presumably from shallow waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Mortensen (1943) coments that until further material besides the type is available from Japan, the identification of material from other areas remains uncertain (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
Holotype whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Satsuma, southern Japan (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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