The Echinoid Directory

Contributed by Andreas Kroh, October 2010

Gymnocidaris A. Agassiz, 1863, p. 17

Name gender feminine
Species Included Originally included species:
  • G. metularis (Lamarck, 1816); Pliocene to Recent, Indo-Pacific.
  • G. minor A. Agassiz, 1863; Recent, Sandwich and Kingsmills Islands.
Classification and/or Status junior homonym of Gymnocidaris L. Agassiz, 1838; synonym of Eucidaris Pomel, 1883
Remarks See Mortensen, T. 1928. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 551 pp.

Agassiz, A. 1863. List of echinoderms sent to different institutions in exchange for other specimens. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 1 (2), 17-28.