World Echinoidea Database - Desmechinus rufus (Bell, 1894)

Echinoidea taxon details

Desmechinus rufus (Bell, 1894)

Desmechinus rufus (ambulacral plates)

AphiaID

513220 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513220)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Desmechinus H.L. Clark, 1923

Orig. name

Salmacis rufa Bell, 1894

Synonymised names

Lytechinus rufus (Bell, 1894) · unaccepted (transferred to Desmechinus)

Psammechinus rufus (Bell, 1894) · unaccepted (transferred to Desmechinus)

Salmacis rufa Bell, 1894 · unaccepted (transferred to Desmechinus)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Salmacis rufa Bell, 1894) Bell FJ (1894) On the echinoderms collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Penguin and by H.M.S. Egeria, when surveying Macclesfield Bank. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1894:392-413, pl. 23-27, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35990686
page(s): 411; pl. 26: figs 2-3 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Desmechinus rufus (Bell, 1894). Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513220 on 2024-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-07 08:24:41Z

created

Kroh, Andreas

2013-08-26 18:24:18Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Salmacis rufa Bell, 1894) Bell FJ (1894) On the echinoderms collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Penguin and by H.M.S. Egeria, when surveying Macclesfield Bank. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1894:392-413, pl. 23-27, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35990686
page(s): 411; pl. 26: figs 2-3 [details]

basis of record 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): 346-349 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Syntype (of Salmacis rufa Bell, 1894) MCZ 4735, verbatimGeounit Macclesfield Bank, 3... [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Salmacis rufa Bell, 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Lytechinus rufus (Bell, 1894))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Psammechinus rufus (Bell, 1894))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (2 records)

From editor or global species database

Desmechinus rufus (ambulacral plates)

Desmechinus rufus (ambulacral + interambulacral plates)