original description
Philippi, R. A. (1857). Vier neue Echinodermen des Chilenischen Meeres. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 23: 130-148., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2439774
page(s): 131-132 [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): 579-580 [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature note Originally established as: "Arbacia oder [= or] Echinocidaris Schythei". [details]