Family TOXOPNEUSTIDAE
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
Toxopneustids are circum-tropical in distribution and include 10 extant genera. Six genera occur in Australian waters, with 11 species recorded.
This family is distinguished from other families in the order Camarodonta by the following combination of character states: lantern camarodont-type; teeth keeled; tubercles imperforate, noncrenulate; test not sculptured; ambulacra trigeminate to polyporous, commonly conspicuously widened adorally; gill slits present, distinct and narrow, in many, very deep and divided by longitudinal keel.
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) |