Family SCHIZASTERIDAE
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
- Smith, A. B. & Kroh, A. 2011. The Echinoid Directory. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/echinoid-directory/index.html [Last accessed 17/02/2012]
Introduction
The Schizasteridae are a cosmopolitan spatangoid family of about 12 extant genera. Five genera and eight species are recorded in Australian waters.
This family is distinguished from others in the order Spatangoida by the following features: usually possessing peripetalous and latero-anal fascioles, but lacking a marginal fasciole and sub-anal fasciole.
General References
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.
McNamara, K.J. & Philip, G.M. 1980. Living Australian schizasterid echinoids. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 104(2): 127-146 figs 1-13
History of changes
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