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Microcyphus zigzag L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 
AphiaID: 212442

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Temnopleuridea (Infraorder) > Temnopleuridae (Family) > Microcyphus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Microcyphus L. Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Sources  original description: Agassiz, L. & Desor, P. J. E. 1846. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres, et des espèces de la classe des échinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie 6, 305-374.
page(s): 358 [details]

basis of record: Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie Tome IV38-41 [details]

basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ, pp. vii+553. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 169-171 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bassian [details]
Madagascar [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Ecology: Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: temperate, endemic in Australia, depth range 0-40 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]

Remark: Syntypes Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle EcEs7777 (3 specimens). Type locality: Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212442
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-09-05 07:12:54Z  created  Garcia, Maria
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-09-07 10:14:26Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2012-06-13 21:51:01Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Microcyphus zigzag L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846. 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=212442 on 2013-05-21
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