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Pelanechinidae

Echinoidea - Echinothurioida - Pelanechinidae

Taxonomy
Pelanechinidae was named by Groom (1887). It is not extant. Its type is Pelanechinus.

It was reranked as the subfamily Pelanechininae by Fell (1966).

It was assigned to Echinothuriidae by Fell (1966); to Acroechinoidea by Kroh and Smith (2010); and to Echinothurioida by Smith (2015).

Sister taxa
Pelanodiademidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Pelanechinidae Groom
1966Pelanechininae Fell p. U348
1972Pelanodiademidae Hess
2010Pelanechinidae Kroh and Smith p. 170
2015Pelanechinidae Smith p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
RankNameAuthor
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
orderEchinothurioida()
familyPelanechinidae
familyPelanechinidae

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.

Fm. †Pelanechinidae Groom 1887
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Pelanechinus corallinus Wright 1858
Invalid names: Pelanodiadema [synonym]
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Pseudopedina bakeri Wright 1854
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Invalid names: Soudetaster martinezae Vadet et al. 2011 [synonym]
Pseudopedina divionensis Michelin 1854
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Invalid names: Echinopsis smithii Forbes 1856 [synonym], Pseudopedina nodoti Cotteau 1858 [synonym]
Invalid names: Soudetaster Vadet et al. 2011 [synonym]
Invalid names: Pelanodiademidae Hess 1972 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available