The Echinoid Directory

Rhaphidoclypus A. Agassiz, 1863, p. 25

Diagnostic Features	As for Clypeaster except with well-developed infundibulum so that much of the oral surface is sunken internal buttressing more or less absent around the margin
Distribution	Pliocene to Recent; Indo-Pacific
Name gender	masculine
Type	Rhaphidoclypus scutiformis A. Agassiz, 1863 (=Echinus reticulatus Linnaeus, 1758, p. 666), by original designation
Species Included	Clypeaster reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758); Pliocene to Recent, Indo-Pacific C. lytopetalus Agassiz & Clark, 1907; Recent, Hawaii C. australasiae (Gray, 1851); Recent, Australia C. fervens Koehler, 1922; Recent, Indo-West Pacific
Classification and/or Status	Clypeasteroida; Clypeasterina; Clypeasteridae Subjective junior synonym of Clypeaster Lamarck, 1801
Remarks	Mortensen, T. 1948. A Monograph of the Echinoidea IV.2 Clypeasteroida. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.