WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637 page(s): 28-31; pl. 2: figs 1-10, pl. 4a: figs 1-6 [details]
basis of record
Mortensen, T. (1948). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ. 471 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 457-459 [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority Authority often given as Klein, 1734. Being pre-Linnean, however, the name is not available. The first available re-description of Rotula augusti is that of Louis Agassiz (1841). [details]
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