Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Aulodonta > Superorder Echinothuriacea > Order Echinothurioida > Family Echinothuriidae > Subfamily Hygrosomatinae > Genus Hygrosoma

Hygrosoma petersii (A. Agassiz, 1880)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hygrosoma*	Mortensen, 1903	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Phormosoma luculentum*	Koehler, 1896, non A. Agassiz, 18??	synonym
*Phormosoma petersii*	A. Agassiz, 1880	synonym
*Phormosoma uranus*	Koehler, 1898, non Thomson, 1877	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Peters's sea urchin sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: oursin de Peters

Literature

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. (1935). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, 647 pp., C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London.
additional source	Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin & C. L. Mah. (2009). Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Hygrosoma petersii (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:124339