Echinoidea name details
original description
Koehler, R. (1927). Echinides du Musée Indien á Calcutta, III: Echinides réguliers. <em>Echinoderma of the Indian Museum.</em> 10: 1-158. page(s): 113-118; pl. 17: figs. 5, 13, 15, pl. 18: figs. 1-6, pl. 19: figs. 2-3, pl. 27: fig. 4 [details] Available for editors
basis of record
Kier, P. M. & Lawson, M. H. 1978. Index of living and fossil echinoids 1924-1970. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 34, 1-182., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.34.1 page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors
status source
Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ. vii+553 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 426-427 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Distribution Ceylon [details]
Status There can hardly be any doubt but that Koehler's Gymnechinus pallidus is identical with G. Robillardi. Neither from the description nor from the illustrations given by Koehler do I gather a single feature distinguishing it from Robillardi, and a direct comparison of a cotype, sent me from the Indian Museum, Calcutta, with my specimens of Robillardi likewise failed to reveal any reliable specific difference between them. KoehIer has carefully compared his G. pallidus with all the other species of Gymnechinus (or, as versicolor, erroneously referred to that genus), excepting alone G. Robillardi, which latter he has evidently quite overlooked. Had he thought of comparing his specimens with Robillardi he would no doubt have realised that they cannot be distinguished from that species. [details]
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