African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Phyllacanthus Brandt, 1835

Phyllacanthus dubius (aboral)

AphiaID

179610 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:179610)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Phyllacanthina Smith & Wright, 1989

Parent

Phyllacanthina Smith & Wright, 1989

Original name

Cidarites (Phyllacanthus) Brandt, 1835

Synonymised names

Leiocidaris Desor, 1855 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

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Species Phyllacanthus imperialis (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Phyllacanthus annulifera A. Agassiz, 1873 accepted as Prionocidaris baculosa annulifera (A. Agassiz, 1873) (transferred to Prionocidaris; accepted at subspecies rank)
Species Phyllacanthus baculosa (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Prionocidaris baculosa (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Phyllacanthus verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Plococidaris)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 67 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Phyllacanthus Brandt, 1835. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=179610 on 2026-09-04

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Phyllacanthus Brandt, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=179610 on 2026-09-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-08-24 08:04:51Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-09-06 12:28:48Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

2021-01-10 20:04:13Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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original description Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 67 [details]

original description (of ) Brandt, J. F. (1835). Prodromus descriptionis Animalium ab H. Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione observatorum, Petropooli. Fasc. I: 203-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 268 [68 in reprint version] [details]

basis of record Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII. 510 pp. [details]

additional source Agassiz, A. (1863). List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 1: 17-28. [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]