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Gracilechinus Fell & Pawson, in Moore, 1966 
AphiaID: 411391

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Echinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Echinus gracilis A. Agassiz, 1869 (type by original designation)
Parent Echinidae Gray, 1825
Source  original description: Fell, H. B. & Pawson, D. L. 1966. Echinacea. Pp. U367-U440 in R. C. Moore (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, U. Echinodermata. 3 (2) GSA & Univ. Kansas Press, Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS.
page(s): U431 [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Gracilechinus acutus (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Gracilechinus affinis (Mortensen, 1903)
Species Gracilechinus alexandri (Danielssen & Koren, 1883)
Species Gracilechinus atlanticus (Mortensen, 1903)
Species Gracilechinus elegans (Düben & Koren, 1844)
Species Gracilechinus gracilis (A. Agassiz, 1869)
Species Gracilechinus lucidus (Döderlein, 1885)
Species Gracilechinus stenoporus (Mortensen, 1942)

Species Gracilechinus multidentatus (H.L. Clark, 1925) accepted as Echinus multidentatus H.L. Clark, 1925
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To Echinoid Directory
To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:411391
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-08-12 09:20:19Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-06 12:28:48Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2010-10-14 14:36:33Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A. (2013). Gracilechinus Fell & Pawson, in Moore, 1966. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411391 on 2013-05-23
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