WoRMS name details
original description
Zelinka, C. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Echinoderen. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 32(5): 130-136. [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology [The genus name was derived from Greek ἁβρός, habrós, gracefully, delicately, and from Greek deres, neck, a common suffix of cyclorhyagid genera, and probably referred to the delicate size of the juvenile specimens in comparison with the adult stage. The suffix -derella represents the diminuitive of -deres and was applied to the eyeless juveniles of Echinoderes.] [details]
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