WoRMS name details
original description
(of Echinus oblongus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522 page(s): 95 [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): 393-395 [details]
additional source
Landry, C., Geyer, L. B., Arakaki, Y., Uehara, T. & Palumbi, S. R. 2003. Recent speciation in the Indo-West Pacific: rapid evolution of gamete recognition and sperm morphology in cryptic species of sea urchin. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 270, 1839-1847. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Arakaki, Y. & Uehara, T. 1999. Morphological comparison of black Echinometra individuals among those in the Indo-West Pacific. Zoological Science Tokyo 16, 551-558., available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.2108/zsj.16.551 [details]
additional source
Arakaki, Y., Uehara, T. & Fagoonee, I. 1998. Comparative studies of the genus Echinometra from Okinawa and Mauritius. Zoological Science Tokyo 15, 159-168.
, available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2108/zsj.15.159 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Status Contrary to Mortensen's (1943) treatment as subspecies of Echinometra mathaei, E. oblonga is currently accepted at species level by the echinoderm community (based on the genetic and morphological research carried out by Arakaki, Palumbi and colleagues). [details]
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