Holopneustes

Holopneustes
Holopneustes porosissimus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Camarodonta
Family: Temnopleuridae
Genus: Holopneustes
L. Agassiz, 1841
Type species
Holopneustes porosissimus
L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846

Holopneustes is a genus of sea urchins, belonging to the family Temnopleuridae.

Species

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Holopneustes inflatus (A. Agassiz, 1872)southern Australia, in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
Holopneustes porosissimus L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846Australia
Holopneustes purpurascens (A. Agassiz, 1872)Australia, in New South Wales

See also

References

  1. ↑ Agassiz, L.; Desor, E. (1846). "Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres, et des espèces de la classe des échinodermes". Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Troisième Série, Zoologie. 6: 305–374.
  2. ↑ Williamson, Jane E.; De Nys, Rocky; Carson, David G.; Steinberg, Peter D. (2000). "Induction of metamorphosis in the sea urchin Holopneustes purpurascens by a metabolite complex from the algal host Delisea pulchra". The Biological Bulletin. 198 (3): 332–345. doi:10.2307/1542689. JSTOR 1542689. PMID 10897447.
  3. ↑ Holopneustes at WoRMS