Family PERICOSMIDAE
Compiler and date details
F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1995) Updated (2001) by Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Introduction
Only one genus is known in the spatangoid family, Pericosmidae, recorded from the Indo-Pacific region. A single species is recorded in Australian waters.
Pericosmids are distinguished in the order Spatangoida by the following features: peripetalous fasciole passing above periproct and entirely separate marginal fasciole passing below periproct, peripetalous fasciole may branch anteriorly, and one or other fasciole may disappear anteriorly.
General References
Fischer, A.G. 1966. Echinozoa: Spatangoids. pp. U543-U628, figs 427-514 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 2.
McNamara, K.J. 1984. Living Australian species of the echinoid Pericosmus (Spatangoida: Pericosmidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 11(2): 87-100 figs 1-8
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 11-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |