WoRMS taxon details
Echinodiscus bisperforatus Leske, 1778
212460 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212460)
accepted
Species
Echinodiscus bifora (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus biforis Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Lobophora bifora (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Lobophora biforis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella bifora (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella biforis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella bilinearifora Des Moulins, 1837 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Tetrodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted
Tetrodiscus bisperforatus (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
- Subspecies Echinodiscus bisperforatus bisperforatus Leske, 1778
- Subspecies Echinodiscus bisperforatus truncatus (L. Agassiz, 1841) accepted as Echinodiscus truncatus (L. Agassiz, 1841) (accepted at species rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 196-197; pl. 21: figs A-B [details]
page(s): 196-197; pl. 21: figs A-B [details]
Note unknown.
Type species of the genus...
Type species of the genus Echinodiscus Leske, 1778 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Type species of the genus...
Unreviewed
Type locality unknown. Type species of the genus Echinodiscus Leske, 1778 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971).
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Echinodiscus bisperforatus Leske, 1778. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212460 on 2025-07-14
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Nomenclature
original description
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): 196-197; pl. 21: figs A-B [details]
original description (of Echinus biforis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3188 [details]
original description (of Scutella bilinearifora 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): 72 [details]
basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]
page(s): 196-197; pl. 21: figs A-B [details]
original description (of Echinus biforis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3188 [details]
original description (of Scutella bilinearifora 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): 72 [details]
basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]
Other
additional source
Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. <em>Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Bonn.</em> 21(1): 537-563., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26416428 [details]
additional source Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie.</em> 4:38-41. [details]
additional source 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): 406-410 [details]
additional source Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie.</em> 4:38-41. [details]
additional source 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): 406-410 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]Type locality unknown.
Type species of the genus Echinodiscus Leske, 1778 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Echinus biforis Gmelin, 1791)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) (from synonym Echinodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1791))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinodiscus bisperforatus)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To MNHN Fossil collection (Tetrodiscus biforis GMELIN in AGASSIZ, 1841; Figuré; F.R62298) (from synonym Tetrodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1791))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (16 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) (from synonym Echinodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1791))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinodiscus bisperforatus)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To MNHN Fossil collection (Tetrodiscus biforis GMELIN in AGASSIZ, 1841; Figuré; F.R62298) (from synonym Tetrodiscus biforis (Gmelin, 1791))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (16 records)
From editor or global species database
