Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
White Sea Urchin
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Coelomopora
()
- (Marcus, 1958) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Echinodermata
()
- Klein, 1734 ex De Brugire, 1789
- Echinoderms
- Subphylum:
Eleutherozoa
()
- Bell, 1891
- Infraphylum:
Echinozoa
()
- Haeckel, in Von Zittell, 1895
- Class:
Echinoidea
()
- Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars
- Subclass:
Euechinoidea
()
- Superorder:
Echinacea
()
- Order:
Temnopleuroida
()
- Family:
Toxopneustidae
()
- Genus:
Tripneustes
()
- Agassiz, 1841
- Specific name:
depressus
- Scientific name: - Tripneustes depressus
- Specific name:
depressus
- Genus:
Tripneustes
(
- Family:
Toxopneustidae
(
- Order:
Temnopleuroida
(
- Superorder:
Echinacea
(
- Subclass:
Euechinoidea
(
- Class:
Echinoidea
(
- Infraphylum:
Echinozoa
(
- Subphylum:
Eleutherozoa
(
- Phylum:
Echinodermata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Coelomopora
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Tripneustes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:
T. depressus (White Sea Urchin) · T. esculentus (Edible Sea Egg) · T. gratilla (Collector Urchin) · T. ventricosus (Sea Egg)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- A catalogue of the recent sea-urchins (Echinoidea) in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) / by Hubert Lyman Clark; [with a preface by C. Tate Regan]. London, 1925. url p. 124, p. 250.
- Allan Hancock Pacific expeditions. [Reports] Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press. url p. 226, p. 250, p. 263, p. 352.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 1 1863 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 24, p. 24, p. 301, p. 301.
- Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 301.
- Marine animals of Baja California: a guide to the common fish and invertebrates / by Daniel W. Gotshall. Los Osos, Calif.: Sea Challengers; c1982. url p. 106, p. 112.
- Notes on Radiata in the museum of Yale College. New Haven, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor1871 url p. 329, p. 375.
- Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of Palaeozoic species. Boston, The Society, 1912. url p. 123.
- Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 384.
- Revision of the Echini / by Alexander Agassiz. 7 1872 Cambridge [Mass.]: University Press, 1872-1874. url p. 134, p. 216, p. 500, p. 75.
- The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Copenhagen: H. Hagerup, 1899-1928. url p. 113, p. 113.
- The depths of the sea: An account of the general results of the dredging cruises of H.M. SS. ?Porcupine ?and ?Lightning ?during the summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., J London: Macmillan and co., 1873. url .
- The depths of the sea; an account of the general results of the dredging cruises of H.M. SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning' during the summers of 1868, 1869 and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, J. Gwyn J By C. Wyville Thomson. London, Macmillan and co., 1874. url p. 13.
- Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Haven: Published by the Academy, 1866- url p. 329, p. 329, p. 375, p. 584.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 17497643
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 838
