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Clypeaster subdepressus

Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae

Taxonomy

Echinanthus subdepressa was named by Gray (1825).

It was recombined as Clypeaster subdepressus by Cooke (1942), Engel (1961), De Buisonjé (1974).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acclivis, C. acuminatus, C. aegyptiacus, C. altus, C. australasiae, C. biarritzensis, C. calabrus, C. campanulatus, C. intermedius, C. julii, C. kamaranense, C. lamberti, C. lamegoi, C. lanceolata, C. latirostris, C. marginatus, C. martini, C. ogasawaraensis, C. paraensis, C. paulinoi, C. portentosus, C. profondus, C. redeii, C. reideii, C. reticulatis, C. scillae, C. scutiformis, C. sowerbyi, C. subdebresus, C. subfolium, C. tauricus, C. depressus, C. confusus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1825	Echinanthus subdepressa Gray
1942	Clypeaster subdepressus Cooke p. 11
1961	Clypeaster subdepressus Engel p. 2
1974	Clypeaster subdepressus De Buisonjé p. 241

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
—	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata
subphylum	Eleutherozoa
—	Echinozoa	()
class	Echinoidea	()
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860

Rank	Name	Author
superorder	Acroechinoidea	()
—	Carinacea
—	Irregularia	()
—	Microstomata
—	Neognathostomata
order	Clypeasteroida
suborder	Clypeasterina	()
family	Clypeasteridae	()
genus	Clypeaster
species	subdepressus	(Gray 1825)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Clypeaster subdepressus Gray 1825

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

high Mg calcitec

Ontogeny:

accretion, addition of partsp

Environment:

marinep

Locomotion:

slow-movingo

Life habit:

semi-infaunalo

Diet:

detritivoreo

Vision:

limitedc

Dispersal:

waterp

Dispersal 2:

planktonicp

Created:

2004-02-28 18:19:59

Modified:

2009-10-08 15:05:22

Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum

References: Aberhan 1992, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 11.63000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene - Pliocene	11.63 - 2.58	Aruba	Clypeaster subdepressus (209166)
Late/Upper Miocene - Pliocene	11.63 - 2.58	Curaçao	Clypeaster subdepressus (209183)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Clypeaster subdepressus (209800)