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Plococidaris vertillata 
AphiaID: 216202

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Cidaroidea (Subclass) > Cidaroida (Order) > Cidaridea (Superfamily) > Cidaridae (Family) > Stylocidarinae (Subfamily) > Plococidaris (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (misspelling)
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Accepted name  Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816)
Rank Species
Parent Plococidaris Mortensen, 1909
Sources  source of synonymy: Sloan, N.A., A.M. Clark & J.D. Taylor (1979). The Echinoderms of Aldabra and their habitats. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Zool.) 37 (2): 81- 128. [details]

source of synonymy: Mortensen, T. (1931). Echinodermata. Faune des colonies francaises 4: 590-596. [details]

source of synonymy: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Note  Status: Clark (1946) and Hoggett & Rowe (1986) synonymize Plococidaris with Prionocidaris despite the very different spine morphology. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216202
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1999-06-16 23:01:02Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2001-11-28 12:16:15Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-02-13 21:48:11Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2012-01-22 20:41:09Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Plococidaris vertillata. 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=216202 on 2013-05-23
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