Arbacia lixula

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Arbacioida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Echinoidea Subclassis: Euechinoidea Superordo: Echinacea Ordo: Arbacioida

Familia: Arbaciidae
Genus: Arbacia
Species: Arbacia lixula

Name

Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonymy

(List may be incomplete)

Arbacia aequituberculata (Blainville, 1825) A. Agassiz, 1863: 20.
Arbacia pustulosa (Leske, 1778)
Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution

Lives in the Mediterranean Sea, Southwest Spain and Portugal, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Cabo Verde, Eastern South America, Brazil, including part of the Southern Hemisphere to Paraná.

References

Agassiz, A.E. 1863. List of the Echinoderms sent to different Institutions in Exchange for other Specimens, with Annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 1(2): 17–28. BHL. Reference page.
Koehler, J.B.F.R. 1898. Échinides et Ophiures provenant des campagnes du yacht l'Hirondelle (Golfe de Gascogne, Acores, Terre-Nueve). Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco. 12: 1–78. BHL Reference page. [as Arbacia pustulosa p. 9]
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii Reference page.
Madeira, P., Kroh, A., Cordeiro, R., Frias Martins, A.M. de & Ávila, S.P. 2019. The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4639(1): 1–231. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1.1 PDF. Reference page. [as Arbacia lixula p. 105–107]