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Echinoidea taxon details

Microcyphus L. Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846 
AphiaID: 206256

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Temnopleuridea (Infraorder) > Temnopleuridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Temnopleuridae A. Agassiz, 1872
Synonymised
taxa
  Anthechinus A. Agassiz, 1863 (Subjective junior synonym)
Salmacopsis Döderlein, 1885 (subjective junior synonym)
Sources  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]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Microcyphus annulatus Mortensen, 1904
Species Microcyphus ceylanicus Mortensen, 1942
Species Microcyphus compsus H.L. Clark, 1912
Species Microcyphus excentricus Mortensen, 1940
Species Microcyphus keiensis Mortensen, 1942
Species Microcyphus maculatus L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Species Microcyphus olivaceus (Döderlein, 1885)
Species Microcyphus rousseaui L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Species Microcyphus zigzag L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846

Species Microcyphus circacanthus H.L. Clark, 1912 accepted as Microcyphus rousseaui L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Species Microcyphus decaryi Lambert, 1922 accepted as Microcyphus rousseaui L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Species Microcyphus pulchellus H.L. Clark, 1928 accepted as Amblypneustes pulchellus (H.L. Clark, 1928)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution 
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Attribute Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
Note  Remark: Type species: Microcyphus maculatus L. Agassiz, 1846 by subsequent designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family Echinidae in Ludwig (1899). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206256
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-08-04 14:17:36Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-25 07:20:28Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
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). Microcyphus L. Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1846. 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=206256 on 2013-05-26
  

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