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Mellitidae Stefanini, 1912 
AphiaID: 158063

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Neognathostomata (Superorder) > Clypeasteroida (Order) > Scutellina (Suborder) > Scutelliformes (Infraorder) > Scutellidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Scutellidea
Sources  original description: Stefanini, G. 1912. Osservazioni sulla distribuzione geografica, sulla origini e sulla filogenesi degli Scutellidae. Bolletino della Società Geologica Italiana 30 (1911), 739-754. [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Kroh, A. & Smith, A.B. (2010): The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8/2: 147-212., available online at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1477-2019&volume=8&issue=2&spage=147
page(s): 172 [details]


Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Leodia Gray, 1851a
Genus Mellita L. Agassiz, 1841a
Genus Mellitella Duncan, 1889

Genus Desmoulinaster Lambert & Thiéry, 1914 accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Echinoglycus Gray, 1855 accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Echinoglyphus Gray, 1852 accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Macrophora Conrad, 1865 † accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Moulinia L. Agassiz, 1841 accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Moulinsia L. Agassiz, in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847a accepted as Moulinia L. Agassiz, 1841 accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Genus Ravenellia Lütken, 1864 accepted as Encope L. Agassiz, 1840a
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Date of publication: Often cited as 1911, but was printed 19. Jan 1912 as stated on the last page of the paper. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158063
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-12-30 14:07:12Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-08-31 07:25:31Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2012-09-07 08:47:35Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Mellitidae. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158063 on 2013-05-19
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