The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Andrew Smith, September 2011
Dictyaster Stefainini 1908, p. 473
| Distribution | Miocene, Mediterranean |
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| Type | No type was established by Stefanini, who included three species in his new genus: Pericosmus malatinus Mazzettii, 1885 and two new species D. Lorioli and D. excentricus. D. excentricus is probably a synonym of Pericosmus malatinus according to Lambrt & Thiery (1925, p. 486), and D. Lorioli is a Trachyaster. The type species is therefore taken as Pericosmus malatinus Mazzettii, 1885, p. 13 |
| Classification and/or Status | Unavailable name: non Dictyaster Alcock & Wood-Masson, 1896 (an asteroid) |
| Remarks | Stefanini, G. 1908. Echinidi Miocenici di Malta esistenti nel Museo di geologia di Firenze. Bolletino della Societa geologica Italica 27, 435-483. |