Genus Toxopneustes L. Agassiz, 1841

Museums

Regional Maps

• Toxopneustes Agassiz, L. 1841. Monographie d'Echinodermes. Observations sur les Progrès Recéns de l'Histoire Naturelle des Echinoderms. Monograph 1. Neuchâtel. 20 pp. [7].

  Type species:

   Echinus pileolus Lamarck, 1816 by monotypy.
• Boletia Desor, E. in 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: 305-374 [362].

  Type species:

   Echinus pileolus Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III (2). Camarodonta I. Orthopsidae, Glyphocyphidae, Temnopleuridae and Toxopneustidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 553 pp. 321 figs 56 pls. [467].

 

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. [U427]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)