WoRMS taxon details

Cystechinus giganteus (A. Agassiz, 1898)

571625  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:571625)

accepted
Species
Urechinus giganteus A. Agassiz, 1898 · unaccepted (transferred to Cystechinus)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Urechinus giganteus A. Agassiz, 1898) 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): 79; pl. 8: figs 7-8 [details]   
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2024). World Echinoidea Database. Cystechinus giganteus (A. Agassiz, 1898). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571625 on 2024-04-23
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2011-05-06 21:18:40Z
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2011-05-09 20:40:51Z
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original description  (of Urechinus giganteus A. Agassiz, 1898) 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): 79; pl. 8: figs 7-8 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

new combination reference Mooi, R. & David, B. 1996. Phylogenetic analysis of extreme morphologies: deep-sea holasteroid echinoids. Journal of Natural History 30, 913-953., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939600770501
page(s): 945 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality