Arbacia lixula

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Arbacioida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Echinoidea Subclassis: Euechinoidea Superordo: Echinacea Ordo: Arbacioida

Familia: Arbaciidae
Genus: Arbacia
Species: Arbacia lixula

Distribution edit

Lives in the Mediterranean Sea, Southwest Spain and Portugal, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Cabo Verde, Eastern South America, Brazil, including part of the Southern Hemisphere to Paraná.

Name edit

Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758 )

Synonyms edit

Arbacia aequituberculata and Arbacia africana are most probably synonyms of Arbacia lixula.

References edit

Madeira, P., Kroh, A., Cordeiro, R., Frias Martins, A.M. de & Ávila, S.P. 2019. The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4639(1): 1–231. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1.1 PDF. Reference page. [as Arbacia lixula p. 105–107]