Marine Species Traits - Leodia Gray, 1851

Echinoidea taxon details

Leodia Gray, 1851

AphiaID

415551 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415551)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Mellitidae Stefanini, 1912

Synonymised names

Mellita (Leodia) Gray, 1851 · unaccepted (accepted at genus rank)

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Species Leodia divinata Mooi & Peterson, 2000 †
Species Leodia sexiesperforata (Leske, 1778)
Species Leodia pacifica (Verrill, 1867) accepted as Encope pacifica (Verrill, 1867) (transferred to Encope)
Species Leodia richardsonii Gray, 1851 accepted as Leodia sexiesperforata (Leske, 1778) (subjective junior synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Gray, J.E. (1851). Description of two new genera and some new species of Scutellidae and Echinolampidae in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 19: 34-38., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680264 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Leodia Gray, 1851. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415551 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

created

db_admin

2010-09-06 12:28:48Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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original description Gray, J.E. (1851). Description of two new genera and some new species of Scutellidae and Echinolampidae in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 19: 34-38., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680264 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Echinoid Directory
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Mellita (Leodia) Gray, 1851)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leodia)
To Genbank
To ITIS