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Echinoidea taxon details

Maretinæ Lambert, 1905 
AphiaID: 600547

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Spatangidea (Superfamily) > Loveniidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (accepted at family level)
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Accepted name  Maretiidae Lambert, 1905
Rank Subfamily
Typetaxon Maretia Gray, 1855 (type by original designation)
Parent Loveniidae Lambert, 1905
Source  original description: Lambert, J. 1905. Notes sur quelques Échinides éocéniques de l'Aude et de l'Hérault. Pp. 129-164 in Doncieux, L. Catalogue descriptif des fossiles nummulitiques de l'Aude et de l'Hérault. Première Partie. Montagne Noire et Minervois. Annales de l'Université de Lyon, Nouvelle Série, I. Sciences, Médecine 17, 129-164.
page(s): 162 [details]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Distribution 
Attribute Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
  » Stage: larva
Notes  Diagnosis: "un fasciole sous-anal" [loveniids possessing just a subanal fascioles] [details]

Status: The absence/presence of fascioles as sole criterium is a problematic character, since fascioles are often present in juveniles, but lost in adults. Additionally, there is quite some intrageneric variability in this character.
Application of this subfamily as diagnosed by Lambert (1905) would result in a para- and/or polyphyletic group. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:600547
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Maretinæ Lambert, 1905. 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=600547 on 2013-05-25
  

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