Contributed by Andreas Kroh, March 2011
| Distribution | Recent; Kingsmills Islands. |
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| Name gender | masculine |
| Type | Xanthobrissus garreti A. Agassiz, 1863, p. 28, by monotypy (= Metalia sternalis (Lamarck, 1816)). |
| Species Included | Only the type species. |
| Classification and/or Status | Spatangoida, Micrasterina, Brissidae. Subjective junior synonym of Metalia Gray, 1855, p. 51. |
| Remarks | Agassiz, A. 1863. List of the echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 1, 17-28. Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 593 pp. |