The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Platypleura Pomel, 1887, p. 174

Type Clypeaster marginatus Lamarck, 1816, p. 14
Classification and/or Status Unavailable name, non Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1849 (an insect).  Name replaced by Platyclypeina by Lambert & Thiery, 1914, p. 304.
Remarks Pomel, A. 1887. Paleontologie ou description des animaux fossiles de l'Algerie. Zoophytes. 2e fascicule. Echinodermes. Alger, J. Jourdan.