original description
Perrier, E. (1869). Recherche sur les pédicellaires et les ambulacres des astérides et des oursins. <em>Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles Victor Masson et fils, Paris.</em> 5-188, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13976641
page(s): 163-164; pl. 6: figs 2a-f [details]
basis of record
Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ. 446 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 420-425 [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority Perrier (1869, p. 163) gives de Bl.[= de Blainville] as author, mentioning an "Echinometra violacea" by de Blainville. We could not locate this in a published source before Perrier (1869) and think that he may have referred to a museum name. [details]