WoRMS name details

Encope oblonga L. Agassiz, 1841

545177  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:545177)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Echinozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Echinoidea (Class)
  6. Euechinoidea (Subclass)
  7. Irregularia (Infraclass)
  8. Neognathostomata (Subterclass)
  9. Luminacea (Superorder)
  10. Echinolampadacea (Order)
  11. Scutelloida (Suborder)
  12. Scutelliformes (Infraorder)
  13. Scutelloidea (Superfamily)
  14. Mellitidae (Family)
  15. Encope (Genus)
  16. Encope oblonga (Species)
 unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] 
Status Coppard & Lessios (2017) wrote: “Nested within the Atlantic clade of E. emarginata are the morphospecies E. subclausa, E....  
Status Coppard & Lessios (2017) wrote: “Nested within the Atlantic clade of E. emarginata are the morphospecies E. subclausa, E. oblonga and E. valensciennesii. Genetic distances between concatenated sequences of E. emarginata, E. subclausa, and E. oblonga ranged between 0.28 and 0.35%; mean intra-morph distances ranged between 0.03 and 0.47% [...]. Thus, inter-morph variation was no larger than intra-morph variation, suggesting very strongly that these three morphs belong to the same species.” [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Encope oblonga L. Agassiz, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=545177 on 2025-04-06
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2010-11-12 07:24:07Z
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Kroh, Andreas
2013-08-26 18:24:18Z
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Kroh, Andreas
2019-11-09 18:24:26Z
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Kroh, Andreas

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Nomenclature

original description 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] 

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] 

From editor or global species database
Status Coppard & Lessios (2017) wrote: “Nested within the Atlantic clade of E. emarginata are the morphospecies E. subclausa, E. oblonga and E. valensciennesii. Genetic distances between concatenated sequences of E. emarginata, E. subclausa, and E. oblonga ranged between 0.28 and 0.35%; mean intra-morph distances ranged between 0.03 and 0.47% [...]. Thus, inter-morph variation was no larger than intra-morph variation, suggesting very strongly that these three morphs belong to the same species.” [details]
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 77 proteins) 

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