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Eupatagus Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor 1847, p. 9

[ =Eupatangus de Groot 1863, p. 515 (error); =Pseudopatagus Pomel, 1885, p. 18, type species P. cruciatus Pomel, 1885, p. 18; = Melitia Fourtau, 1913, p. 68, type species Metalia melitensis Gregory, 1891, p. 621; = Heterospatangus Fourtau, 1905, p. 606, type species Macropneustes lefebvrei de Loriol, 1881, p. 50; = Euspatangus Cotteau, 1869, p. 257 (nomen vanum); = Perispatangus Fourtau, 1905, p. 605, type species Euspatangus libyeus de Loriol, 1881, p. 52; = Koilospatangus Lambert, 1906, p. 185 (objective); =Herreraster Sanchez Roig, 1951, p. 52, type species Herreraster herrerae Sanchez Roig, 1951; = Zanolettiaster Sanchez Roig, 1952, p. 14, type species Z. herrerae Sanchez Roig, 1952; = Megapatagus Sanchez Roig, 1953, p. 58, type species M. franciscanus Sanchez Roig, 1953; =Neopatagus Sanchez Roig, 1953, p. 258, type species Breynia cubensis Cotteau, 1875]

Diagnostic Features
  • Test ovate without anterior sulcus.
  • Apical disc ethmolytic, with 4 gonopores. Madreporic plate projecting well posterior of the other apical disc plates.
  • Anterior ambulacrum narrow and flush; pore-pairs small, simple isopores.
  • Other ambulacra petaloid and flush. Petals distinctly bowed and tapering adapically.
  • Periproct large; on short vertical truncate face.
  • Peristome large and kidney-shaped.
  • Labral plate elongate and wedge-shaped; almost as long as the following sternal plates.
  • Some large primary tubercles differentiated within peripetalous fasciole in interambulacral zones. Areoles not sunken.
  • Large tubercles also bordering the frontal ambulacrum.
  • Plastron short and triangular.
  • Well-developed peripetalous and subanal fascioles. Subanal fasciole bilobed.
Distribution
Eocene to Recent, worldwide, low to mid latitudes.
Name gender masculine
Type
Eupatagus valenciennesi L. Agassiz, in Agassiz & Desor, 1847, p. 113, by subsequent designation of Pomel, 1883, p. 28.
Species Included
  • E. alatus Arnold & Clark, 1927; Middle to Late Eocene, Cuba.
  • E. antillarum (Cotteau); Eocene, St Bartholemew, Jamaica.
  • E. anomalus (Duncan, 1877); Miocene, Australia
  • E. caobaense Sanchez Roig, 1952; Middle Eocene, Cuba.
  • E. carolinensis Clark, in Clark & Twitchell, 1915; Middle Eocene, SE USA.
  • E. cetus Kruse & Philip, 1985; Miocene, Australia
  • E. collabus Kruse & Philip, 1985; Miocene, Australia
  • E. cruciatus (Pomel, 1885); Eocene, Algeria.
  • E. cubensis (Cotteau, 1875); Miocene, Cuba.
  • E. clevei (Cotteau, 1875); Late Eocene, Caribbean, Central America, Florida, Oligo-Miocene, Cuba. [includes E. hildae Hawkins, 1934; Oligocene, Jamaica]
  • E. excentricus (Gregory, 1891); Eocene (Bartonian), England.
  • E. franciscanus Sanchez-Roig 1953; Oligocene-Miocene, Cuba.
  • E. herrarae Sanchez Roig, 1952; Oligo-Miocene, Cuba.
  • E. hollisi Stockley, 1927; Miocene (Burdigalian), Zanzibar.
  • E. lamberti Fourtau, 1909; Lower Eocene, Egypt.
  • E. lawsoni Kier, 1974; Middle Eocene, SE USA.
  • E. lefebvrei (de Loriol, 1880); Lower to Middle Eocene, North Africa.
  • E. ludbrookae Kruse & Philip, 1985; Miocene, Australia
  • E. lymani (Lambert & Thiery, 1924); Recent, Hawaiian Islands.
  • E. melitensis (Gregory, 1891); Miocene, Mediterranean.
  • E. micropetalus (Clark, 1917); Recent, Japan.
  • E. murrayensis Laube, 1869; Miocene, Australia
  • E. obscurus (Agassiz & Clark, 1907); Recent, Hawaiian Islands.
  • E, patellaris d'Archiac & Haime, 1853; Eocene, Pakistan.
  • E. rajasthanensis Srivastava & Singh, 2008; Eocene, India.
  • E. rostratus d'Archiac, 1850; Upper Eocene to Lower Miocene, India, Java, Japan, New Zealand.
  • E. rubellus Mortensen, 1948; Recent, Philippines.
  • E. sanchezi (Lambert, 1949); early Miocene, Cuba.
  • E. santanae Sanchez Roig, 1951; Oligo-Miocene, Cuba.
  • E. siboneyensis Weisbord, 1934; Late Eocene, Cuba.
  • E. turibacoensis Sanchez Roig, 1953; Late Eocene, Cuba.
  • E. valenciennesi Agassiz, 1847; Recent, Australia.
  • E. wilsoni Kier, 1980; Middle Eocene, SE USA.
  • E. wrighti Laube, 1869; Miocene, Australia
  • MANY OTHERS NOT CHECKED
Classification and/or Status

Spatangoida, Micrasterina, Maretiidae.

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Remarks

Differs from Maretia in having a thin peripetalous fasciole and fully tuberculate sternal plates.

Agassiz, L. & Desor, P. J. E. 1846-1847. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres, et des espèces de la classe des échinodermes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie : 6 (1846): 305-374, pls. 15-16; 7 (1847): 129-168; 8 (1847): 5-35, 355-380.

Mortensen, T. 1951. A monograph of the Echinoidea. V. Spatangoida 2. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.