WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Sphærechinus australiae A. Agassiz, 1872) Agassiz, A. 1872. Preliminary Notice of a few Species of Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 3, 55-58., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6705306 page(s): 55-56 [details]
new combination reference
Hart, M. W., Jeffrey, C. H. & Emlet, R. B. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of echinometrid sea urchins: more species of Heliocidaris with derived modes of reproduction. Invertebrate Biology 130, 175-185. page(s): 183 [details]
From editor or global species database
New combination Analyses of mitochondrial COI and bindin sequences showed that Heliocidaris is paraphyletic by exclusion of Pachechinus. Therefore, Hart et al. (2011, p. 183), consider Pachechinus a subjectiv junior synonym of Heliocidaris. [details]
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