Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Irregularia > Subterclass Atelostomata > Order Holasteroida > Suborder Meridosternata > Infraorder Urechinina > Family Pourtalesiidae > Genus Pourtalesia

Pourtalesia miranda A. Agassiz, 1869

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pourtalesia*	A. Agassiz, 1869	accepted genus name
*Echinosigra (Pourtalesia)*	A. Agassiz, 1869	synonym

Species group names

*Pourtalesia wandeli*	Mortensen, 1905	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: wonderful 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 magnifique

Literature

original description	Agassiz A. (1869). Preliminary report on the echini and star-fishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by L. F. de Pourtalès, Assist. U.S. Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 1(9): 253-308.
basis of record	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.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Pourtalesia miranda A. Agassiz, 1869. 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:513825