WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Dendraster excentricus var. elongatus H.L. Clark, 1935) Clark, H. L. (1935). Some New Echinoderms from California. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10th Series.</em> 15: 120-129. page(s): 122-125 [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 382-385 [details]
Taxonomystatus source
Mooi, R. 1997. Sand dollars of the genus Dendraster (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida): Phylogenetic systematics, heterochrony, and distribution of extant species. Bulletin of Marine Science 61, 343-375. page(s): 351, 362 [details]
From editor or global species database
Status D. excentricus elongatus was not considered by Mortensen (1948) or any subsequent worker to be a valid taxon [...]. It is not consistent to name a subspecies based on slight changes in length to width ration without also naming new taxa on the basis of many other features that can vary as much, if not more than test width. [details]
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