Genus Eucidaris Pomel, 1883

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eucidaris Pomel, N.A. 1883. Classification méthodique et généra des Echinides vivants et fossiles. Alger : Publisher unknown 131 pp. 1 pl. [109] [replacement name for Gymnocidaris A. Agassiz, 1863].

  Type species:

   Cidarites monilifera Goldfuss, 1829 by subsequent designation, see Cooke, C.W. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321: 1-106 pls 1-43 [8].
• Gymnocidaris 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 [17] [junior homonym of Gymnocidaris A. Agassiz, 1838 (Echinodermata)].

  Type species:

   Cidarites metularia Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mortensen, T. 1928. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 551 pp. 73 figs 88 pls. [384]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, SW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)