WoRMS taxon details
Rotula deciesdigitatus (Leske, 1778)
534505 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534505)
accepted
Species
Echinodiscus decies digitatus Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (incorrect original spelling...)
incorrect original spelling (mandatory changed according to ICZN 4th ed., Art. 32.5.2.6.)
Echinodiscus deciesdigitata Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling...)
incorrect subsequent spelling (ICZN 4th ed., Art. 31.2.1.)
Echinodiscus deciesdigitatus Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (transferred to Rotula)
Echinodiscus octies digitatus Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinotrochus augusti (L. Agassiz, 1841) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus octodactylos Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Rotula augusti (L. Agassiz, 1841) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Rotula augusti Klein, 1734 · unaccepted (pre-Linnean)
Rotula decies digitata (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling...)
incorrect subsequent spelling (ICZN 4th ed., Art. 31.2.1.)
Rotula deciesdigitata (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling...)
incorrect subsequent spelling (ICZN 4th ed., Art. 31.2.1.)
Rotula gaultieri Gray, 1855 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Rotula multiloba Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella augusti L. Agassiz, 1841 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella decadactylos (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination,...)
unaccepted combination, misidentification
Scutella digitata Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella gaultieri (Gray, 1855) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Scutella octodactylos (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Rotula deciesdigitatus (Leske, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534505 on 2025-03-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Rotula augusti (L. Agassiz, 1841)) Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographies d'Échinodermes vivans et fossiles. Échinites. Famille des Clypéasteroides. 2 (Seconde Monographie). Des Scutelles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, i-iv, 1-151, pls 1-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1395637
page(s): 28-31; pl. 2: figs 1-10, pl. 4a: figs 1-6 [details]
original description (of Echinodiscus decies digitatus Leske, 1778) 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): 209-210; pl. 22: figs A-B [details]
original description (of Echinodiscus octies digitatus Leske, 1778) 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): 211; pl. 22: figs C-D [details]
original description (of Echinus octodactylos 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. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3192 [details]
original description (of Rotula augusti Klein, 1734) Klein, J.T. (1734). Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum. Accessit lucubratiuncula de aculeis Echinorum Marinorum, cum spicilegio de belemnitis. Thom.Joh,Schreiber, Gedani, 79 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42102815
page(s): 32; pl. 22: figs A-D [details]
original description (of Rotula multiloba Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 85 [details]
original description (of Scutella digitata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 8 [details]
original description (of Rotula gaultieri Gray, 1855) Gray J.E. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I.-Echinida Irregularia. Woodfall & Kinder, London, 69 pp., available online at http://books.google.at/books?id=fxE5AAAAMAAJ&ots=5wNsuduUq7&dq=Catalogue%20of%20the%20Recent%20Echinida%2C&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 18 [details]
new combination reference Clark, H. L. (1914). Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Clypeasteridae, Arachnoididae, Laganidae, Fibulariidae, and Scutellidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 46/1, 1-80., available online at http://archive.org/stream/memoirs46harv#page/n9/mode/2up
page(s): 78 [details]
page(s): 28-31; pl. 2: figs 1-10, pl. 4a: figs 1-6 [details]
original description (of Echinodiscus decies digitatus Leske, 1778) 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): 209-210; pl. 22: figs A-B [details]
original description (of Echinodiscus octies digitatus Leske, 1778) 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): 211; pl. 22: figs C-D [details]
original description (of Echinus octodactylos 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. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3192 [details]
original description (of Rotula augusti Klein, 1734) Klein, J.T. (1734). Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum. Accessit lucubratiuncula de aculeis Echinorum Marinorum, cum spicilegio de belemnitis. Thom.Joh,Schreiber, Gedani, 79 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42102815
page(s): 32; pl. 22: figs A-D [details]
original description (of Rotula multiloba Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 85 [details]
original description (of Scutella digitata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 8 [details]
original description (of Rotula gaultieri Gray, 1855) Gray J.E. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I.-Echinida Irregularia. Woodfall & Kinder, London, 69 pp., available online at http://books.google.at/books?id=fxE5AAAAMAAJ&ots=5wNsuduUq7&dq=Catalogue%20of%20the%20Recent%20Echinida%2C&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 18 [details]
new combination reference Clark, H. L. (1914). Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Clypeasteridae, Arachnoididae, Laganidae, Fibulariidae, and Scutellidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 46/1, 1-80., available online at http://archive.org/stream/memoirs46harv#page/n9/mode/2up
page(s): 78 [details]





To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Rotula augusti (L. Agassiz, 1841))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Rotula augusti Klein, 1734)
To MNHN Type collection (IE 2016-589) (from synonym Scutella digitata Lamarck, 1816)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Rotula deciesdigitata (Leske, 1778))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (4 records) (from synonym Rotula augusti (L. Agassiz, 1841))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Rotula augusti Klein, 1734)
To MNHN Type collection (IE 2016-589) (from synonym Scutella digitata Lamarck, 1816)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (1 record) (from synonym Rotula deciesdigitata (Leske, 1778))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (4 records) (from synonym Rotula augusti (L. Agassiz, 1841))