Marine Species Traits - Brissopsis pacifica (A. Agassiz, 1898)

WoRMS taxon details

Brissopsis pacifica (A. Agassiz, 1898)

Brissopsis pacifica, aboral view

AphiaID

513150 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513150)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Brissopsis L. Agassiz, 1840

Original name

Toxobrissus pacificus A. Agassiz, 1898

Synonymised names

Kleinia pacifica (A. Agassiz, 1898) · unaccepted (transferred to Brissopsis)

Toxobrissus pacificus A. Agassiz, 1898 · unaccepted (transferred to Brissopsis)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Toxobrissus pacificus A. Agassiz, 1898) Agassiz, A. (1898). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galápagos, to the the west coast of México, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission Streamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. XXIII. Preliminary report on the Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 32, 71-86., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30426278#page/185/mode/1up
page(s): 83; pl. 11: figs 4-5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Brissopsis pacifica (A. Agassiz, 1898). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513150 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-07 08:24:41Z

created

Kroh, Andreas

2013-08-26 18:24:18Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Toxobrissus pacificus A. Agassiz, 1898) Agassiz, A. (1898). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galápagos, to the the west coast of México, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission Streamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. XXIII. Preliminary report on the Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 32, 71-86., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30426278#page/185/mode/1up
page(s): 83; pl. 11: figs 4-5 [details]

basis of record Mortensen, T. (1951). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, 593 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 420-424 [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]

context source (PeRMS) Solís-Marín, F. A.; Alvarado, J. J.; Abreu-Pérez, M.; Aguilera, O.; Alió, J.; Bacallado-Aránega, J. J.; Barraza, E.; Benavides-Serrato, M.; Benítez-Villalobos, F.; Betancourt-Fernández, L.; Borges, M.; Brandt, M.; Brogger, M. I.; Borrero-Pérez, G. H.; Buitrón-Sánchez, E.; Campos, L. S.; Cantera, J.; Clemente, S.; Cohen-Renjifo, M.; Coppard, S.; Costa-Lotufo, L. V.; del Valle-García, R.; Díaz, Y.; Díaz de Vivar, M. E.; Díaz-Martínez, J. P.; Durán-González, A.; Epherra, L.; Escolar, M.; Francisco, V.; Freire, C. A.; García-Arrarás, E.; Gil, D. G.; Guarderas, P.; Hadel, V. F.; Hearn, A.; Hernández, J. C.; Hernández-Delgado, E. A.; Herrera-Moreno, A.; Herrero-Pérezrul, M. D.; Hooker, Y.; Honey-Escandón, M. B. I.; Lodeiros, C.; Luzuriaga, M.; Manso, C. L. C.; Martín, A.; Martinez, M. I.; Martínez, S.; Moro-Abad; Mutschke, E.; Navarro, J. C.; Neira, R.; Noriega, N.; Palleiro-Nayar, J. S.; Pérez, A. F.; Pérez-Ruzafa, A.; Prieto-Rios, E.; Reyes, J.; Rodríguez, R.; Rubilar, T.; Sancho-Mejía, T.; Sangil, C.; Silva, J. R. M. C.; Sonnenholzner, J. I.; Ventura, C. R.; Tablado, A.; Tavares, Y.; Tiago, C. G.; Tuya, F.;Williams, S. M. (2013). Appendix. In: J. J. Alvarado & F. A. Solís-Marín (eds), Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America. pp. 471-510. Springer; Berlin & Heidelberg. page(s): 543-654. [details]