WoRMS taxon details
Encope emarginata (Leske, 1778)
513255 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513255)
accepted
Species
Desmoulinaster cassidulinus (Des Moulins, 1837) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinodiscus emarginatus Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (transferred to Encope)
Echinoglycus frondosus Gray, 1855 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus emarginatus (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (transferred to Encope)
Encope (Echinadesma) emarginata (Leske, 1778) · alternative representation
Encope ghiesbrechtii Belval, 1863 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Encope oblonga L. Agassiz, 1841 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Encope quinqueloba (Eschscholtz, 1829) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Encope subclausa L. Agassiz, 1841 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Encope valenciennesi L. Agassiz, 1841 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)
Encope valenciennesii L. Agassiz, 1841 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Mellita lobata L. Agassiz, 1841 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Moulinia cassidulina (Des Moulins, 1837) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Moulinsia cassidulina (Des Moulins, 1837) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella cassidulina Des Moulins, 1837 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella emarginata (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (transferred to Encope)
Scutella quadrifora Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella quinqueloba Eschscholtz, 1831 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Echinodiscus emarginatus Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834
page(s): 200-201; pl. 50: figs 5-6 [details]
page(s): 200-201; pl. 50: figs 5-6 [details]
Fossil range Fossil E. emarginata has been reported from the Late Pliocene (3.60-2.59 Ma) of the Caribbean and Venezuela and the...
Fossil range Fossil E. emarginata has been reported from the Late Pliocene (3.60-2.59 Ma) of the Caribbean and Venezuela and the Pleistocene of Brazil. (Coppard & Lessios, 2017) [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Encope emarginata (Leske, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513255 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Encope oblonga L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 53-54; pl. 9: figs 1-7 [details]
original description (of Echinodiscus emarginatus Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834
page(s): 200-201; pl. 50: figs 5-6 [details]
original description (of Echinoglycus frondosus Gray, 1855) Gray J.E. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I.-Echinida Irregularia. Woodfall & Kinder, London, 69 pp., available online at http://books.google.at/books?id=fxE5AAAAMAAJ&ots=5wNsuduUq7&dq=Catalogue%20of%20the%20Recent%20Echinida%2C&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 24-25 [details]
original description (of Encope ghiesbrechtii Belval, 1863) Belval, Th. (1863). Description d'une espèce nouvelle d'Echinide, appartemant au genre Encope (Ag.). <i>Bull. Acad. des Sci. de la Belgique</i>. (2) XV pp. 419-424., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36329843
page(s): 419-424 [details]
original description (of Mellita lobata L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 44; pl. 4a: fig. 13, pl. 16: figs 4-7 [details]
original description (of Encope subclausa L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 56-57; pl. 5: figs 1-4 [details]
original description (of Scutella cassidulina 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): 78 [details]
original description (of Scutella quadrifora Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 9 [details]
original description (of Scutella quinqueloba Eschscholtz, 1831) Eschscholtz J. F. (1831). Zoologischer Atlas - Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten, während des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 1823-1826.. <i>G. Reimer, Berlin pt. 4</i>: 1-19, pl. 16-20, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/38058
page(s): 18-19; pl. 20: fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Encope valenciennesii L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 54-56; pl. 7: figs 1-4, pl. 8: figs 1-5 [details]
basis of record Mortensen, T. (1948). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ. 471 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 438-440 [details]
page(s): 53-54; pl. 9: figs 1-7 [details]
original description (of Echinodiscus emarginatus Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834
page(s): 200-201; pl. 50: figs 5-6 [details]
original description (of Echinoglycus frondosus Gray, 1855) Gray J.E. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I.-Echinida Irregularia. Woodfall & Kinder, London, 69 pp., available online at http://books.google.at/books?id=fxE5AAAAMAAJ&ots=5wNsuduUq7&dq=Catalogue%20of%20the%20Recent%20Echinida%2C&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 24-25 [details]
original description (of Encope ghiesbrechtii Belval, 1863) Belval, Th. (1863). Description d'une espèce nouvelle d'Echinide, appartemant au genre Encope (Ag.). <i>Bull. Acad. des Sci. de la Belgique</i>. (2) XV pp. 419-424., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36329843
page(s): 419-424 [details]
original description (of Mellita lobata L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 44; pl. 4a: fig. 13, pl. 16: figs 4-7 [details]
original description (of Encope subclausa L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 56-57; pl. 5: figs 1-4 [details]
original description (of Scutella cassidulina 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): 78 [details]
original description (of Scutella quadrifora Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 9 [details]
original description (of Scutella quinqueloba Eschscholtz, 1831) Eschscholtz J. F. (1831). Zoologischer Atlas - Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten, während des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegsschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 1823-1826.. <i>G. Reimer, Berlin pt. 4</i>: 1-19, pl. 16-20, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/38058
page(s): 18-19; pl. 20: fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Encope valenciennesii L. Agassiz, 1841) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 54-56; pl. 7: figs 1-4, pl. 8: figs 1-5 [details]
basis of record Mortensen, T. (1948). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV, 2. Clypeasteroida. Clypeasteridæ, Arachnoidæ, Fibulariidæ, Laganidæ and Scutellidæ. 471 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 438-440 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Coppard, S.E. & Lessios, H.A. (2017). Phylogeography of the sand dollar genus Encope: implications regarding the Central American Isthmus and rates of molecular evolution. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 7(1): 11520., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11875-w [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Fossil range Fossil E. emarginata has been reported from the Late Pliocene (3.60-2.59 Ma) of the Caribbean and Venezuela and the Pleistocene of Brazil. (Coppard & Lessios, 2017) [details]
To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Echinodiscus emarginatus Leske, 1778)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Encope emarginata)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Encope oblonga L. Agassiz, 1841)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Encope subclausa L. Agassiz, 1841)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Encope valenciennesii L. Agassiz, 1841)
To MNHN Type collection (IE 2013-10550) (from synonym Mellita lobata L. Agassiz, 1841)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (54 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Echinodiscus emarginatus Leske, 1778)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Encope emarginata)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Encope oblonga L. Agassiz, 1841)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Encope subclausa L. Agassiz, 1841)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Encope valenciennesii L. Agassiz, 1841)
To MNHN Type collection (IE 2013-10550) (from synonym Mellita lobata L. Agassiz, 1841)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (54 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
