Genus Clypeaster Lamarck, 1801

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• Clypeaster Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou, tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaus; présentant leurs caractères essentials et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; précéde du Discours d'ouverture de l'an VIII de la République. Paris : Déterville viii 432 pp. [349].

  Type species:

   Echinus rosaceus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (2). Clypeastroida. Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Fibulariidae, Laganidae and Scutellidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 471 pp. 258 figs 72 pls. [40].
• Anomalanthus Bell, F.J. 1884. On the generic position and relations of Echinanthus tumidus Woods. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 40-45 pls 2-3 [43].

  Type species:

   Echinanthus tumidus Tenison-Woods, 1878 by original designation.
• Coronanthus Lambert, J. 1913. Description des Echinides des Terrains Néogènes du Basin du Rhône. Basel. Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Gesellschaft 39: 105-151 pls 8-12 [123].

  Type species:

   Clypeaster microstomus Lambert, 1913 by original designation.
• Rhaphidoclypus Agassiz, A. 1863. List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1(2): 17-28 [25].

  Type species:

   Rhaphidoclypus scutiformis A. Agassiz, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (2). Clypeastroida. Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Fibulariidae, Laganidae and Scutellidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 471 pp. 258 figs 72 pls. [71].
• Stolonoclypus Agassiz, A. 1863. List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1(2): 17-28 [25].

  Type species:

   Echinanthus humilis Leske, 1778 by subsequent designation, see Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (2). Clypeastroida. Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Fibulariidae, Laganidae and Scutellidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 471 pp. 258 figs 72 pls. [35].
• Plesianthus Duncan, P.M. 1889. A revision of the genera and great groups of the Echinoidea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 23: 1-311 [154].

  Type species:

   Echinanthus testudinarius Gray, 1851 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. 2012. World Echinoidea Database. http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/ [last accessed 17/02/2012] ((sub)generic subdivision of Clypeaster not accepted by scientific community)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. IV (2). Clypeastroida. Clypeastridae, Arachnoididae, Fibulariidae, Laganidae and Scutellidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 471 pp. 258 figs 72 pls. [37]
• Durham, J.W. 1966. Echinozoa: Clypeasteroids. pp. U450-U491, figs 335-377 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. [U462]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Lord Howe Rise - Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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