Genus Heliocidaris L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846

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• Heliocidaris Agassiz, L. & Desor, E. 1846. Catalogue raisonné des familles des genres et des espèces de la Classe de Echinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 3 6: 325-374 [371] [Agassiz & Desor (op. cit.) attribute authorship to Desmoulins, presumably on the basis of some communication between the two parties; Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (3). Camarodonta II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 446 pp. 215 figs 66 pls (336) attributes name to L. Agassiz & Desor, since Desmoulins never published name, and authorship cannot now be confirmed].

  Type species:

   Echinus omalostoma Desor, 1846 by subsequent designation, see Clark, H.L. 1912. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentrotidae and Echinometridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 34(4): 205-383 pls 90-121 [281].

  Secondary source:

   Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (3). Camarodonta II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 446 pp. 215 figs 66 pls.
• Toxocidaris 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 [22].

  Type species:

   Toxopneustes delalandi L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 by subsequent designation, see Clark, H.L. 1912. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentrotidae and Echinometridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 34(4): 205-383 pls 90-121 [281].
• Pachechinus A. Agassiz, 1872.

  Type species:

   Spaerechinus australiae A. Agassiz, 1872 by monotypy.
• Pachycentrotus Clark, H.L. 1912. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentrotidae and Echinometridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 34(4): 205-383 pls 90-121 [349].

  Type species:

   Sphaerechinus australiae A. Agassiz, 1872 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (3). Camarodonta II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 446 pp. 215 figs 66 pls. [316].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fell, H.B. & Pawson, D.L. 1966. Echinozoa: Echinacea. pp. U367-U440 figs 272-328 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. [U435]
• Hart, M.W., Jeffery, C.H. & Emlet, R.B. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of echinometrid sea urchins: more species of Heliocidaris with derived modes of reproduction. Invertebrate Biology 130(2): 175-185

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Hart, M.W., Jeffery, C.H. & Emlet, R.B. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of echinometrid sea urchins: more species of Heliocidaris with derived modes of reproduction. Invertebrate Biology 130(2): 175-185

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

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