Arbacia lixula

Taxonavigation

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

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

Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758 )

Synonyms

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

References

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]