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Maretia

Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Spatangidae

Taxonomy
Maretia was named by Gray (1855) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l R]. It is extant. Its type is Spatangus planulatus.

It was reranked as Spatangus (Maretia) by Ebert (1889).

It was assigned to Spatangus by Ebert (1889); to Spatangidae by Grant and Hertlein (1938), Fischer (1966), Henderson (1975), Kier (1980) and Kier (1997); and to Spatangoida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1855Maretia Gray
1889Spatangus (Maretia) Ebert
1938Maretia Grant and Hertlein p. 133
1966Maretia Fischer p. U609
1975Maretia Henderson p. 33
1980Maretia Kier p. 49
1997Maretia Kier p. 11
2002Maretia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
Ambulacraria
phylumEchinodermata
subphylumEleutherozoa
Echinozoa()
classEchinoidea()
subclassEuechinoideaBronn 1860
RankNameAuthor
superorderAcroechinoidea()
Carinacea
Irregularia()
Atelostomata
orderSpatangoida
suborderBrissidina
superfamilySpatangidea
familySpatangidae
genusMaretiaGray 1855

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.

G. Maretia Gray 1855
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Maretia carinata Bolau 1873
Maretia carolinensis Kier 1997
Maretia clarki Lambert 1924
Maretia cordata Mortensen 1948
Maretia elevata Döderlein 1906
Maretia elliptica Bolau 1874
Maretia fasciata Lambert 1924
Maretia hungarica Vadász 1915
Maretia mascareignarum Michelin 1863
Maretia peloria Clark 1916
Maretia planulata Lamarck 1816
Maretia praelongus Herklots 1854
Maretia saccoi Airaghi 1905
Maretia savini Cotteau 1893
Maretia tuberculata Agassiz and Clark 1907
Maretia twitchelli Lambert 1924
Maretia variegatus Gray 1866
Maretia zeisei Gagel 1905
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available