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WoRMS taxon detailsEchinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758)
213378 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213378)
accepted
Species
Astropyga spinosissima (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Astropyga subularis (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Centrostephanus subularis (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris araneiformis Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris coronalis Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites spinosissima Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Cidarites subularis Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema desjardinsii Michelin, 1845 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema spinosissimum (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Diadema subulare (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix cincta (A. Agassiz, 1863) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix petersii Bölsche, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix spinosissima (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix spinosissimum (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix subularis (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinothrix turcarum Peters, 1853 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus coronalis (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (transferred to Echinothrix)
Garelia cincta A. Agassiz, 1863 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Garelia subularis (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
marine,
recent only
(of Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 664 [details] Available for editors  [request]
Type locality contained in Indian Ocean
type locality contained in Indian Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Description Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon,...
Description Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=213378 on 2025-07-15
Date action by 2000-09-25 07:20:28Z changed Garcia, Maria
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Echinothrix turcarum Peters, 1853) Peters, W. (1853). Über die an der Küste von Mossambique beobachteten Seeigel und insbesondere über die Gruppe der Diademen. <em>Abhandlungen der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 1854: 101-119., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29200414 page(s): 116 [details] original description (of Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 page(s): 664 [details] Available for editors [request]original description (of Cidaris araneiformis 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): 116 [details]  original description (of Cidarites spinosissima Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702 page(s): 58 [details] original description (of Diadema desjardinsii Michelin, 1845) Michelin, H. (1845). Essai d'une Faune de l'Ile Maurice, publiée avex les matériaux et les notes laissés par Julien Desjardins, sous le direction et par les soins de M. F. E. Guérin Méneville. <em>Magasin de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et de palaeontologie, Série 2.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39927490 page(s): 13-14; pl. 7: figs a-e [details] original description (of Echinothrix petersii Bölsche, 1865) Bölsche, W. 1865. Zusammenstellung der bis jetzt bekannten Echiniden aus der Gruppe der Diademiden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 31, 324-336., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7202655 page(s): 334; pl. 13: figs 3-4 [details] original description (of Cidarites subularis Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702 page(s): 58 [details] original description (of Garelia cincta A. Agassiz, 1863) Agassiz, A. (1863). List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 1: 17-28. page(s): 18-19 [details] original description (of Cidaris coronalis 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): 136-138; pl. 8: figs a-b [details] basis of record Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] Otheradditional source
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
additional source Mortensen, T. (1940). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta). 370 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 290-295 [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype (of Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758) MCZ 2028, geounit Kerguelen Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed
Description Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991).General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'M. Indico' (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) (from synonym Echinothrix turcarum Peters, 1853) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) (from synonym Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinothrix diadema) To GenBank (917 nucleotides; 599 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To MNHN Type collection (IE 2013-10454) (from synonym Astropyga spinosissima (Lamarck, 1816)) To MNHN Type collection (IE 2014-3950) (from synonym Diadema desjardinsii Michelin, 1845) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (89 records) ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:81E3489C-C513-4EAE-B2A7-3116A96637D2 (from synonym Echinus diadema Linnaeus, 1758) To ITIS |
