The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andrew Smith, August 2011

Thrichoproctus Agassiz Ms, in Agassiz, 1872, p. 139

Name gender masculine
Classification and/or Status Nomen nudum, cited in Mortensen, 1951, p. 21 (footnote)
Remarks

Agassiz (1872, p. 140) lists Trichoproctus tenuis Agassiz Ms as a synonym of Maretia planulata.  As pointed out by Mortensen this name was never published and has no standing.

Agassiz, A. 1872. Revision of the Echini. Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. University Press, Cambridge.

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