Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Irregularia > Subterclass Atelostomata > Order Spatangoida > Family Hemiasteridae > Genus Holanthus

Holanthus expergitus (Lovén, 1871)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Holanthus*	Lambert & Thiéry, 1924	accepted genus name
*Hemiaster (Integraster)*	Lambert & Thiéry, 1924	junior homonym

Species group names

*Hemiaster (Integraster) expergitus*	Lovén, 1871	synonym
*Hemiaster expergitus*	Lovén, 1871	synonym
*Hemiaster mentzii*	A. Agassiz, 1883	synonym
*Hemiaster zonatus*	A. Agassiz, 1879	synonym

Children

Holanthus expergitus gibbosus (A. Agassiz, 1879)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: awakened heart 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 éveillé

Literature

redescription	Mortensen, T. (1950). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 1. Spatangoida I. Protosternata, Meridosternata, Amphisternata I. Palæopneustidæ, Palæostomatidæ, Aëropsidæ, Toxasteridæ, Micrasteridæ, Hemiasteridæ, 432 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
new combination reference	Mironov A.N. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Echinoidea. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 120–129 [in English].

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Holanthus expergitus (Lovén, 1871). 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:526627