Echinoidea name details
Dendraster excentricus var. elongatus H.L. Clark, 1935
718893 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:718893)
unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Variety
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Clark, H. L. (1935). Some New Echinoderms from California. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10th Series.</em> 15: 120-129.
page(s): 122-125 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 122-125 [details] Available for editors
Holotype MCZ 6040, geounit Gulf of California
, Note Holotype: MCZ 3343 [two further non-type...
Holotype MCZ 6040, geounit Gulf of California [details]
From editor or global species database
Type material Holotype: MCZ 3343 [two further non-type specimens are mentioned in the original publication] [details]
Distribution off the Coronados Islands, south-west of San Diego, California, U.S.A.; 15 fms depth
Status D. excentricus elongatus was not considered by Mortensen (1948) or any subsequent worker to be a valid taxon [...]. It is...
Distribution off the Coronados Islands, south-west of San Diego, California, U.S.A.; 15 fms depth [details]
Status D. excentricus elongatus was not considered by Mortensen (1948) or any subsequent worker to be a valid taxon [...]. It is...
Status D. excentricus elongatus was not considered by Mortensen (1948) or any subsequent worker to be a valid taxon [...]. It is not consistent to name a subspecies based on slight changes in length to width ration without also naming new taxa on the basis of many other features that can vary as much, if not more than test width. [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Dendraster excentricus var. elongatus H.L. Clark, 1935. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718893 on 2025-01-30
original description
Clark, H. L. (1935). Some New Echinoderms from California. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10th Series.</em> 15: 120-129.
page(s): 122-125 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Kier, P. M. & Lawson, M. H. 1978. Index of living and fossil echinoids 1924-1970. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 34, 1-182., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.34.1
page(s): 68 [details] Available for editors
status source Mooi, R. 1997. Sand dollars of the genus Dendraster (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida): Phylogenetic systematics, heterochrony, and distribution of extant species. Bulletin of Marine Science 61, 343-375.
page(s): 351, 362 [details]
page(s): 122-125 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Kier, P. M. & Lawson, M. H. 1978. Index of living and fossil echinoids 1924-1970. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 34, 1-182., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.34.1
page(s): 68 [details] Available for editors
status source Mooi, R. 1997. Sand dollars of the genus Dendraster (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida): Phylogenetic systematics, heterochrony, and distribution of extant species. Bulletin of Marine Science 61, 343-375.
page(s): 351, 362 [details]
Holotype MCZ 6040, geounit Gulf of California [details]
Paratype MCZ 6041, geounit Gulf of California [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis This interesting sand-dollar differs from the common Dendraster excentricus in three points: it is longer than wide, the petals are narrower, more nearly equal, and much less well-defined, and the boundaries of the columns of coronal plates of the posterior part of the test are distinctly marked on the apical surface by brown lines. Furthermore, in young excentricus of the size of these specimens, each coronal plate of the apical surface (at least, each of the larger ones) is usually just a little convex, and this convex portion has slightly smaller tubercles, so that the apical surface is not uniformly smooth and even, as in elongatus; description exaggerates this difference, but it is obvious to the naked eye when the specimens are side by side. [details]Distribution off the Coronados Islands, south-west of San Diego, California, U.S.A.; 15 fms depth [details]
Status D. excentricus elongatus was not considered by Mortensen (1948) or any subsequent worker to be a valid taxon [...]. It is not consistent to name a subspecies based on slight changes in length to width ration without also naming new taxa on the basis of many other features that can vary as much, if not more than test width. [details]
Type material Holotype: MCZ 3343 [two further non-type specimens are mentioned in the original publication] [details]