Polydesmaster Lambert 1920 (heart urchin)

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Toxasteridae

Full reference: J. Lambert. 1920. Sur quelques genres nouveaux d'échinides. Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Agriculture des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du Département de l’Aube 55:145-174

Parent taxon: Toxasteridae according to A. G. Fischer 1966

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Adytaster, Aphelaster, Douvillaster, Enallaster, Enallopneustes, Heteraster, Isaster, Macraster, Mokotibaster, Toxaster

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder-detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Polydesmaster in the database

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