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Echinoidea taxon details

Moira A. Agassiz, 1872 
AphiaID: 158066

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Paleopneustina (Suborder) > Schizasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Schizasteridae Lambert, 1905
Synonymised
taxa
  Moera Michelin, 1855 (junior homonym of Moera Leach, 1814 (Crustacea))
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen.
page(s): 325 [details] [view taxon]


Direct child
taxa

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 Species Moira atropos (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Moira lachesinella Mortensen, 1930
Species Moira lethe Mortensen, 1930
Species Moira stygia (A. Agassiz, 1872)

Species Moira atropus accepted as Moira atropos (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Moira clotho Michelin, 1855 accepted as Moira atropos clotho Michelin, 1855
Species Moira clothro accepted as Moira atropos clotho Michelin, 1855
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution 
Links To Echinoid Directory
To GenBank
To ITIS
Attribute Functional group: benthos » Stage: adult (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Functional group: plankton » Stage: larva (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Note  Remark: In family Spatangidae in Ludwig (1899).
Type species: Spatagus atropus Lamarck, 1816 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158066
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2006-09-25 06:54:45Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-06 12:28:48Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Moira A. Agassiz, 1872. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158066 on 2013-06-18
  

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