Tatarenko, D.E. & Poltaraus, A.B. 1993. Affiliation of sea urchin Pseudocentrotus depressus to the family Strongylocentrotidae and description of a new genus Mesocentrotus belonging to the group based on DNA-DNA hybridization and comparative morphological data. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 72(2), 61-72.
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Tatarenko, D. E.; Poltaraus, A. B.
1993
Affiliation of sea urchin Pseudocentrotus depressus to the family Strongylocentrotidae and description of a new genus Mesocentrotus belonging to the group based on DNA-DNA hybridization and comparative morphological data
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal
72(2): 61-72
Publication
Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and Strongylocentrotus nudus are referred to a new genus Mesocentrotus within the Strongylocentridae based on DNA-DNA hybridization patterns. Additional data on the morphology of the Larval skeleton and Tooth plates of these urchins and, Pseudocentrotus depressus, Lytechinus variegatus, Sphaerechinus granularis and Tripneustes ventricosus is presented.