World Register of Deep-Sea species - Colobocentrotus Brandt, 1835

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Colobocentrotus Brandt, 1835

Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii

AphiaID

179654 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:179654)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Echinometridae Gray, 1855

Original name

Echinus (Colobocentrotus) Brandt, 1835

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Subgenus Colobocentrotus (Podophora) L. Agassiz, 1840
1. Species Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Colobocentrotus atratus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (Linnaeus, 1758) (currently attributed to the subgenus Podophora)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

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): 66 [details]

(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): 266 [66 in reprint version] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Colobocentrotus Brandt, 1835. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=179654 on 2026-09-05

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Colobocentrotus Brandt, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=179654 on 2026-09-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-08-24 08:04:51Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2006-09-08 06:50:23Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-09-06 12:28:48Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

2011-12-19 21:15:59Z

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): 66 [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): 266 [66 in reprint version] [details]

basis of record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]

From editor or global species database

Original description Different version of the work containing the original description exist, differing in the pagination; in one version Colobocentrotus is descibed on p. 66, in the other version on p. 266. [details]

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