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WoRMS taxon details

Phormosoma bursarium A. Agassiz, 1881

Echinothurioida (oral primary spines)

AphiaID

214650 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214650)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Phormosoma Thomson, 1872

Original name

Phormosoma bursarium A. Agassiz, 1881

Synonymised names

Phormosoma indicum Döderlein, 1905 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Agassiz, A. (1881). Report on the Echinoidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 3 (part 9): 1-321, pl. 1-66., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-09/README.htm
page(s): 99-101; pl. 10b: figs 1-9 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2024). World Echinoidea Database. Phormosoma bursarium A. Agassiz, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214650 on 2024-11-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1999-06-07 19:50:04Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-29 13:20:33Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2008-12-24 14:27:32Z

changed

Decock, Wim

2010-09-07 10:47:00Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

2011-04-08 07:45:14Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

Licensing

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original description Agassiz, A. (1881). Report on the Echinoidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 3 (part 9): 1-321, pl. 1-66., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-09/README.htm
page(s): 99-101; pl. 10b: figs 1-9 [details]

original description (of Phormosoma indicum Döderlein, 1905) Döderlein, L. (1905). Über Seeigel der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 28/18: 621-624., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9903339#page/631/mode/1up
page(s): 621 [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 Clark, A. M. (1977). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude cruises, part 4: Echinoderms. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 73(6):; 133-147. [details]

additional 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): 135-142 [details]

additional source Mah, C.L.; McKnight, D.G.; Eagle, M.K.; Pawson, D.L.; Améziane, N.; Vance, D.J.; Baker, A.N.; Clark, H.E.S.; Davey, N. (2009). Phylum Echinodermata: sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies. In: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 371-400. [details]

additional source 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): 480-484; figs 26-27 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Syntype (of Phormosoma indicum Döderlein, 1905) MCZ 842, verbatimGeounit Pemba Channel, East ... [details]

Syntype (of Phormosoma indicum Döderlein, 1905) MCZ 915, verbatimGeounit Pemba Channel, East ... [details]

Syntype MCZ 837, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unreviewed

Ecology Ecology: benthic, continental slope. General distribution: tropical, temperate, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 170-2340 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Remark Syntype in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) No. 837. Type locality: off Mindanao, Phillipes, 466 m (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

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