Family PARASALENIIDAE
Compiler and date details
F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1995) Updated (2001) by Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Introduction
Parasaleniids are distributed throughout the Indo-west Pacific region. Only a single extant genus is known. Two species are recorded from Australian waters.
This family is distinguished within the order Camarodonta by the following set of character states: test elliptical at ambitus; periproct with four (three–five) plates; blade of globiferous pedicellariae without lateral teeth, lantern camarodont-type.
General References
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.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 11-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |