Phyllacanthus Brandt, 1835 
AphiaID: 179610

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Cidaroidea (Subclass) > Cidaroida (Order) > Cidaridea (Superfamily) > Cidaridae (Family) > Phyllacanthina (Tribe)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Typetaxon of		Phyllacanthina Smith & Wright, 1989
Parent		Phyllacanthina Smith & Wright, 1989
Synonymised taxa		Cidaris (Leiocidaris) Desor, 1855 (subjective junior synonym) Leiocidaris Desor, 1855 (subjective junior synonym) Lhyllacanthus (spelling mistake)
Sources		basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] basis of record: Agassiz, A. 1863. List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 1, 17-28. [details] [full text] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] from synonym: Mortensen, T. 1928b. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea, pp. 551. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press; Copenhagen & London. page(s): 429 [details] [view taxon]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Phyllacanthus dubius Brandt, 1835 Species Phyllacanthus forcipulatus Mortensen, 1936 Species Phyllacanthus imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus irregularis Mortensen, 1928 Species Phyllacanthus longispinus Mortensen, 1918 Species Phyllacanthus magnificus H.L. Clark, 1914 Species Phyllacanthus parvispinus Tension Woods, 1878 Species Phyllacanthus annulifera A. Agassiz, 1873 accepted as Prionocidaris baculosa annulifera (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus australis Ramsay, 1885 accepted as Prionocidaris australis (Ramsay, 1885) Species Phyllacanthus baculosa (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Prionocidaris baculosa (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus baculosus (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Prionocidaris baculosa (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus dubia Brandt, 1835 accepted as Phyllacanthus dubius Brandt, 1835 Species Phyllacanthus fustigera A. Agassiz, 1863 accepted as Phyllacanthus imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus fustigerus A. Agassiz, 1863 accepted as Phyllacanthus imperialis (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus gigantea (A. Agassiz, 1863) accepted as Chondrocidaris gigantea A. Agassiz, 1863 Species Phyllacanthus tenuispinus Mortensen, 1918 accepted as Phyllacanthus parvispinus Tension Woods, 1878 Species Phyllacanthus thomasi A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907 accepted as Prionocidaris thomasi (A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907) Species Phyllacanthus verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus verticillatus (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816) Species Phyllacanthus verticulata accepted as Plococidaris verticillata (Lamarck, 1816)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Distribution
Link		To Echinoid Directory
Attribute		Fossil range: Phanerozoic > Paleozoic > Permian > Cisuralian (298.9±0.2 Ma) (inherited from Cidaroida) Fossil range: Phanerozoic > Cenozoic > Quaternary > Holocene (0.0117 Ma) (inherited from Cidaroida) Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: adult Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)   » Stage: larva
Note		Remark: Type species: Cidarites (Phyllacanthus) dubia Brandt, 1835 by subsequent designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:179610
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-08-24 08:04:51Z   created   Appeltans, Ward 2006-09-27 07:06:07Z   changed   Martinez, Olga 2010-09-06 12:28:48Z   changed   Kroh, Andreas
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		Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Phyllacanthus Brandt, 1835. 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=179610 on 2013-05-25