Genus Maretia Gray, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Maretia Gray, J.E. 1855. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, or Sea Eggs, in the Collection of the British Museum. Echinida Irregularia. London : British Museum Vol. 1 69 pp., 6 pls. [48] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Spatangus Gray, 1825].

  Type species:

   Spatangus planulatus Lamarck, 1816 by monotypy.
• Hemipatagus Desor, E. 1858. Synopsis des Echinides fossiles. 494 pp. 44 pls. [416].

  Type species:

   Spatangus hoffmanni Goldfuss, 1826 by original designation.
• Tuberaster Peron, A. & Gauthier, V. 1885. Echinides fossiles de l'Algérie. Paris 89 pp. 8 pls. [not seen] [46].

  Type species:

   Tuberaster tuberculatus Peron & Gauthier, 1885 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (2). Spatangoida. II. Amphisternata II, Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 593 pp. 286 figs 64 pls. [21]
• 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. [U609]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes