Genus Diadema Humpfreys, 1797

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Genus Diadema Humpfreys, 1797

Diadema Humpfreys, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum. Specification of the various articles which compose the [collections of the] Museum of Natural History collected by M. de Calonne in France. [24].
Type species:
Echinometra setosa Leske, 1778 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1825. An attempt to divide the Echinida or sea-eggs into natural families. Annals of Philosophy 26: 423-431 [426] (genus defined precisely).
Secondary source:
Mortensen, T. 1928. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 551 pp. 73 figs 88 pls. [241, 243-244]; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1954. Opinion 206. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 3: 319-338 [321].
Centrechinus Jackson, R.. 1912. Phylogeny of the Echini. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 1-491 pls 1-76 [28] [unnecessary substitution for Diadema Gray, 1825].
Type species:
Echinometra setosa Leske, 1778 by original designation.
Secondary source:
Mortensen, T. 1940. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (1). Aulodonta, with additions to (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta). Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel Vol. II 370 pp. 197 figs 77 pls. [243].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Watson, J.E. 1979. Biota of a temperate shallow-water reef. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 103(4): 227-235 [Pholiostigma watsoni Baker, m.s. is a nomen nudem; the species was described as Amphistigma watsoni by Baker, 1979] [U350]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical Region, New Zealand, West Pacific Ocean

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

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Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		17-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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