The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, September 2006

Centroclypus Ebray, 1858, p. 483

Name gender masculine
Type Ebray (1858, p. 526) makes clear that Centroclypeus is the name of the accepted genus (not Centropygus) and that it corresponds with that having C. guetinicus Ebray as genotype.
Classification and/or Status = Centropygus Ebray 1858, by subsequent designation of Lambert, 1918, p. 20: see Galeropygus Cotteau, 1856.
Remarks Ebray, T. 1858. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France (2) 15, p. 483.

Lambert, J. 1918. Considérations sur la classification des échinides atelostomes. Mémoires de la Société académique de l’Aube, (3) 82, 9-54.