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Echinoidea taxon details

Metalia Gray, 1855

Metalia (aboral)
Metalia (aboral)

123420 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123420)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Echinozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Echinoidea (Class)
  6. Euechinoidea (Subclass)
  7. Irregularia (Infraclass)
  8. Atelostomata (Subterclass)
  9. Spatangoida (Order)
  10. Brissidina (Suborder)
  11. Brissidae (Family)
  12. Metalia (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Spatangus sternalis Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816) (type by original designation)
Brissus (Metalia) Gray, 1855 · unaccepted (accepted at genus rank)
Eobrissus Bell, 1904 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Metaliopsis Fourtau, 1916 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Metallia · unaccepted (misspelling)
Prometalia Pomel, 1883 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Radiobrissus Fourtau, 1913 † · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Xanthobrissus A. Agassiz, 1863 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

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  1. Species Metalia agariciformis Duncan & Sladen †
  2. Species Metalia angustus de Ridder, 1984
  3. Species Metalia cartagensis Sánchez Roig, 1949 †
  4. Species Metalia dicrana H.L. Clark, 1917
  5. Species Metalia dubia Arnold & H. L. Clark, 1934 †
  6. Species Metalia jamaicensis Arnold & H. L. Clark, 1934 †
  7. Species Metalia kermadecensis Baker & Rowe, 1990
  8. Species Metalia latissima H.L. Clark, 1925
  9. Species Metalia nobilis Verrill, 1867
  10. Species Metalia palmeri Sánchez Roig, 1953 †
  11. Species Metalia pelagica Nisiyama, 1968 †
  12. Species Metalia persica (Mortensen, 1940)
  13. Species Metalia robillardi (de Loriol, 1876)
  14. Species Metalia spatagus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  15. Species Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816)
  16. Species Metalia townsendi (Bell, 1904)
  17. Species Metalia waylandi Stockley, 1927 †
  18. Species Metalia africana (Verrill, 1871) accepted as Plagiobrissus africanus (Verrill, 1871) (transferred to Plagiobrissus)
  19. Species Metalia costae Gasco, 1876 accepted as Rhabdobrissus costae (Gasco, 1876) accepted as Plagiobrissus (Rhabdobrissus) costae (Gasco, 1876) (transferred to Rhabdobrissus)
  20. Species Metalia gareti accepted as Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816) (misspelling for Metalia gareti)
  21. Species Metalia garretti (A. Agassiz, 1863) accepted as Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
  22. Species Metalia maculosa (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Metalia spatagus (Linnaeus, 1758) (subjective junior synonym)
  23. Species Metalia pectoralis (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Plagiobrissus grandis (Gmelin, 1791) (subjective junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Metalia Gray, 1855. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123420 on 2026-08-06
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Hansson, Hans
2006-09-25 06:54:45Z
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Martinez, Olga
2010-09-06 12:28:48Z
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Kroh, Andreas
2011-12-03 17:01:36Z
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Kroh, Andreas

original description (of Prometalia Pomel, 1883) Pomel, A. 1883. Classification méthodique et Genera des Échinides vivantes et fossiles. Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles 503, Adolphe Jourdan, Alger, 131 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43038 [details] 

original description (of Xanthobrissus A. Agassiz, 1863) Agassiz, A. (1863). List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 1: 17-28. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Eobrissus Bell, 1904) Bell, F. J. (1904). Description of a new Genus of Spatangoids. <i>Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist</i>. (7). XIII, p. 236-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16108322 [details] 

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

additional source Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details] 
 
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Remark Type species: Spatangus sternalis Lamarck, 1816 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family Spatangidae in Ludwig (1899) and Clark (1954). [details]
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Japanese ライオンブンブク属  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Echinoid Directory 
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Prometalia Pomel, 1883)
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Metaliopsis Fourtau, 1916)
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Eobrissus Bell, 1904)
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Radiobrissus Fourtau, 1913 †)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metalia) 
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