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WoRMS taxon details

Sperosoma giganteum A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907

513555  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513555)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Agassiz, A. & Clark, H. L. 1907c. Preliminary report on the Echini collected in 1906, from May to December, among the Aleutian Islands, in Bering Sea, and along the coasts of Kamchatka, Saghalin, Korea, and Japan, by U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", in charge of Lieut.-Commander L. M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 51/5, 107-139., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2797303
page(s): 120-121 [details] 
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Sperosoma giganteum A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513555 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature

original description Agassiz, A. & Clark, H. L. 1907c. Preliminary report on the Echini collected in 1906, from May to December, among the Aleutian Islands, in Bering Sea, and along the coasts of Kamchatka, Saghalin, Korea, and Japan, by U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", in charge of Lieut.-Commander L. M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 51/5, 107-139., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2797303
page(s): 120-121 [details] 

basis of record Mortensen, T. (1935). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, 647 pp., C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 199-200 [details] 

Other

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

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English giant sea urchin  [details]
French oursin géant  [details]

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