Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Mortensen, T. (1934). New Echinoidea. Preliminary Notice. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 98: 161-167. page(s): 162 [details] Available for editors 
original description
(of Phormosoma placenta var. africana Mortensen, 1934) Mortensen, T. (1934). New Echinoidea. Preliminary Notice. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 98: 161-167. page(s): 162 [details] Available for editors 
basis of record
Kier, P. M. & Lawson, M. H. 1978. Index of living and fossil echinoids 1924-1970. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 34, 1-182., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.34.1 page(s): 20 [details] Available for editors 
status source
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): 133 [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Off South Africa [details]
Status Established as "Phormosoma placenta var. africana", but according to current ICZN regulations (Article 45.6.4.) it is deemed subspecific. [details]
Taxonomic remark Originally proposed as an infrasubspecific taxon (variety), but is to be treated as a subspecies according to the Code (ICZN 1999 Art. 45.6.4.). [details]
Type locality not given, probably off the west coast of South Africa [details]
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