The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andreas Kroh, August 2010

Dermatodiadema A. Agassiz, 1898, p. 76.

Diagnostic Features see Plesiodiadema
Distribution Recent, Indo-Pacific and Atlantic.
Name gender neuter
Type Type species Dermatodiadema globulosum A. Agassiz, 1898, p. 76, by subsequent designation of Agassiz & Clark 1908, p. 100; Recent.
Classification and/or Status subjective junior synonym of Plesiodiadema (see Mortensen, 1940, p. 22-24)
Remarks Mortensen, T. 1940. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta). C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 370 pp.

Agassiz, A. 1898. Preliminary report on the echini of the Albatross expedition. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 32, p. 76.