The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, July 2011

Cryptocyphus Lambert & Thiery, 1914, p. 274

Name gender masculine
Type Glyphocyphus ataxensis Cotteau, 1886, p. 725
Classification and/or Status Objective junior synonym of Rhabdopleurus Cotteau, 1893.
Remarks Erected by Lambert & Thiery (1914) as a replacement name in the mistaken belief that the name Rhabdopleurus was already occupied by Rhabdopleura Allman 1856 (a hemichordate).

Lambert, J. & Thiery, P. 1909-1925. Essai de Nomenclature Raisonnée des Echinides. L. Ferrière, Chaumont, fasc. 1: i-iii, 1-80, pls 1-2 (March 1909); fasc. 2: 81-160, pls 3-4 (July 1910); fasc. 3: 161-240, pls 5-6 (May 1911); fasc. 4: 241-320, pls 7-8 (March 1914); fasc. 5: 321-384, pl. 9 (Sept. 1921); fasc. 6-7: 385-512, pls 10-11, 14 (Dec. 1924); fasc. 7-8: 513-607, pls 12, 13, 15 (Feb. 1925).