Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Carinacea > Subterclass Echinacea > Order Camarodonta > Infraorder Echinidea > Family Echinidae > Genus Echinus

Echinus wallisi A. Agassiz, 1880

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echinus*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Agassiz, Alexander. (1880). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea in 1878-79, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States during summer of 1880, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake". IX. Preliminary report on the Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 8(2): 69-84.
basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
additional source	Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ. 446 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Echinus wallisi A. Agassiz, 1880. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124315