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Echinoidea taxon details

Ellipsechinus Lütken, 1864 
AphiaID: 205987

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Echinometridae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Record
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Accepted name  Echinometra Gray, 1825
Rank Genus
Parent Echinometridae Gray, 1855
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]

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

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Species Ellipsechinus decaryi Lambert, 1933 accepted as Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825)
Species Ellipsechinus lobatus (Blainville, 1825) accepted as Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ellipsechinus lukunter (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ellipsechinus macrostomus Lütken, 1864 accepted as Echinometra vanbrunti A. Agassiz, 1863
Species Ellipsechinus matheyi accepted as Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825)
Species Ellipsechinus oblongus (Blainville, 1825) accepted as Echinometra mathaei oblonga (Blainville, 1825)
Species Ellipsechinus pictus (A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907) accepted as Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825)
Species Ellipsechinus subangularis (A. Agassiz, 1872-74) accepted as Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ellipsechinus viridis (A. Agassiz, 1863) accepted as Echinometra viridis A. Agassiz, 1863
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution 
Link To Echinoid Directory
Attribute Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
Note  Remark: Type species: Ellipsechinus macrostomus Lütken, 1864 (=Echinometra vanbrunti A. Agassiz, 1864) by monotyppy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205987
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Date   action   by
2000-09-05 07:12:54Z  created  Garcia, Maria
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2006-09-11 06:44:08Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-06 12:28:48Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Ellipsechinus Lütken, 1864. 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=205987 on 2013-05-20
  

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