Marine Species Traits - Opechinus Desor, 1856

Echinoidea taxon details

Opechinus Desor, 1856

AphiaID

512536 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:512536)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Temnopleuridae A. Agassiz, 1872

Synonymised names

Pseudopechinus Lambert & Thiéry, 1911 † · unaccepted (objective junior synonym)

Direct children (7)

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Species Opechinus albus Mortensen, 1942
Species Opechinus cheribonensis Jeannet in Lambert & Jeannet, 1935 †
Species Opechinus collignoni Jeannet in Lambert & Jeannet, 1935 †
Species Opechinus madurae Jeannet in Jeannet & Martin, 1937 †
Species Opechinus variabilis (Döderlein, 1885)
Species Opechinus michelini Lambert, 1907 accepted as Temnotrema bothryoides (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (subjective junior synonym)
Species Opechinus spectabilis Mortensen, 1904 accepted as Erbechinus spectabilis (Mortensen, 1904) (transferred to Erbechinus)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Opechinus Desor, 1856. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/Echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512536 on 2025-05-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-06 12:01:53Z

created

Kroh, Andreas

2010-09-06 12:28:48Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

2020-05-08 12:20:04Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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Japanese	コオロギウニ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Pseudopechinus Lambert & Thiéry, 1911 †)
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