Marine Species Traits - Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816)

Echinoidea taxon details

Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816)

Lytechinus variegatus from Panama

AphiaID

367850 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367850)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lytechinus A. Agassiz, 1863

Original name

Echinus variegatus Lamarck, 1816

Synonymised names

Anapesus blainvillei (Des Moulins, 1837) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus blainvillei Des Moulins, 1837 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus excavatus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus variegatus Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (transferred to Lytechinus)

Lytechinus excavatus (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Lytechinus thieryi Koehler, 1927 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Lytechinus thiéryi Koehler, 1927 · unaccepted (incorrect original spelling...)

incorrect original spelling (mandatory changed according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 32.5.2.1.)

Psammechinus excavatus (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Psammechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (transferred to Lytechinus)

Psilechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (transferred to Lytechinus)

Schizechinus excavatus (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Schizechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (transferred to Lytechinus)

Toxopneustes atlanticus (A. Agassiz, 1863) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Toxopneustes variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (transferred to Lytechinus)

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Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus carolinus A. Agassiz, 1863
Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus pallidus H.L. Clark, 1925
Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus plurituberculatus Kier, 1963 †
Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816)
Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus atlanticus A. Agassiz, 1863 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus pallida H.L. Clark, 1925 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus pallidus H.L. Clark, 1925 (incorrect declination of species name)
Subspecies Lytechinus variegatus typicus H.L. Clark, 1912 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816) (nomen nudum)
Variety Lytechinus variegatus var. pallida H.L. Clark, 1925 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus pallida H.L. Clark, 1925 accepted as Lytechinus variegatus pallidus H.L. Clark, 1925 (Infrasubspecific taxon that is to be treated as a subspecies according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 45.6.4)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Echinus variegatus Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 48 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed at: http://marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367850 on 2025-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-10-01 07:48:25Z

created

Decock, Wim

2010-09-07 10:47:00Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

2013-08-26 18:24:18Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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original description (of Echinus blainvillei Des Moulins, 1837) des Moulins, C. 1837. Troisième Mémoire sur les Échinides. - Synonymie générale. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 9, 45-364. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32866957
page(s): 122 [details]

original description (of Echinus variegatus Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 48 [details]

original description (of Lytechinus thieryi Koehler, 1927) Koehler, R. (1927). Echinides du Musée Indien á Calcutta, III: Echinides réguliers. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum. 10: 1-158.
page(s): 104-108; pl. 18: figs 7-8, pl. 19: fig. 4, pl. 27: fig. 6 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Echinus excavatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 83 [details]

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

context source (Bermuda) Zigler, K. S.; Lessios, H. A. (2004). Speciation on the coasts of the new world: phylogeography and the evolution of bindin in the sea urchin genus Lytechinus. Evolution, 58(6): 1225-1241 [details]

basis of record Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ. vii+553 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 437-446 [details]

status source Zigler, K. S. & Lessios, H. A. 2004. Speciation on the coasts of the New World: phylogeography and the evolution of bindin in the sea urchin genus Lytechinus. Evolution 58, 1225-1241., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01702.x [details]