Marine Species Traits - Sperosoma obscurum A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907

Echinoidea taxon details

Sperosoma obscurum A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907

Sperosoma obscurum (ambulacral plates)

AphiaID

513556 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513556)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Sperosoma Koehler, 1897

Original name

Sperosoma obscurum A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Agassiz, A.; Clark, H. L. (1907). Preliminary report on the echini collected, in 1902, among the Hawaiian Islands, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", in charge of Commander Chauncey Thomas, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 50(8): 231-259., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4226745
page(s): 239-240 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Sperosoma obscurum A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513556 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-07 08:24:41Z

created

Kroh, Andreas

2011-04-08 07:45:14Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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original description Agassiz, A.; Clark, H. L. (1907). Preliminary report on the echini collected, in 1902, among the Hawaiian Islands, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", in charge of Commander Chauncey Thomas, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 50(8): 231-259., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4226745
page(s): 239-240 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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): 194-195 [details]

redescription Anderson, O. F. (2016). A review of New Zealand and southeast Australian echinothurioids (Echinodermata: Echinothurioida)—excluding the subfamily Echinothuriinae—with a description of a new species of Tromikosoma. Zootaxa. 4092(4): 451., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.1
page(s): 454-459; figs 1-5 [details] Available for editors