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Echinodermata
Discussion
Bruguiere, 1789 and Brugiere, 1791 (in Zuykov et al. 2008)
Taxonomy
Echinodermata was named by Klein (1754). It is extant.
It was assigned to Ambulacralia by Zrzavy et al. (1998); to Metazoa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ambulacraria by Edgecombe et al. (2011) and Nielsen (2012).
It was assigned to Ambulacralia by Zrzavy et al. (1998); to Metazoa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ambulacraria by Edgecombe et al. (2011) and Nielsen (2012).
Subtaxa
Asterozoa (syn. Stelleroidea), Blastoidea, Blastozoa, Camptostromoidea, Cincta, Crinoidea, Ctenocystoidea, Ctenoimbricata, Cyclocystoidea, Discoidea, Echinoconus, Echinozoa, Edrioasteroidea, Eleutherozoa, Helicocystitidae, Helicoplacoidea, Holothuroidea, Homoiostelea, Homostelea, Iheringiana, Mesocrinus, Paracrinozoa, Pediculacaudinidae, Pelmatozoa, Peripneustes, Scoteinocystis, Scutellidae, Scutellinidae, Semperitidae, Stylophora, Tubocaudinidae
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1754 | Echinodermata Klein |
| 1998 | Echinodermata Zrzavy et al. |
| 2002 | Echinodermata Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2011 | Echinodermata Edgecombe et al. p. 153 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 2012 | Echinodermata Nielsen p. 321 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available