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Echinodermata (Echinoderms)

 

Class: Asteroidea

Order: Forcipulatida

Family: Heliasteridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Heliaster solaris Clark, 1920 24-rayed sunstar 1983 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Extinct or invalid (synonym) Access

 

Order: Paxillosida

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Dipsacaster sagaminus Hayashi, 1973   (rediscovered) Japan Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Valvatida

Family: Oreasteridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Halityle regularis Fisher, 1913 - - Africa, Australia, Madagascar & Philippines Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Poraniidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Patiriella littoralis Dartnall, 1970 Derwent River seastar 2004 Tasmania, Australia Extinct Access

 

 

Class: Echinoidea

Order: Camarodonta

Family: Temnopleuridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Amblypneustes elevatus (Hutton, 1872)   (rediscovered) Australia & New Zealand Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Cassiduloida

Family: Cassidulidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Cassidulus infidus Mortensen 1948   (rediscovered) Bahia, Brazil Rediscovered Access

 

 

Order: Clypeasteroida

Family: Clypeasteridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Hesperaster crassus H. L. Clark, 1938 - Mid-Holocene Western Australia, Australia Extinct Access

 

Order: Spatangoida

Family: Brissidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Taimanawa mortenseni Henderson & Fell, 1969 - - Indo-Pacific Ocean? Rediscovered Access

 

Family: Loveniidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Breynia vredenburgi Anderson, 1907 - - Andaman Islands, India Rediscovered Access

 

 

Class: Holothuroidea

Order: Dendrochirotida

Family: Ypsilothuriidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Ypsilocucumis californiae Massin & Hendrickx, 2011   (rediscovered) western Mexico (including the Gulf of California) Rediscovered Access 

 

Order: Elasipodida

Family: Elpidiidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Peniagone leander
Pawson & Foell, 1986   - Pacific Ocean (incl. Mariana Trench area) Rediscovered Access
             
Penilpidia ludwigi (von Marenzeller, 1893) Ludwig's sea cucumber - Mediterranean Sea Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Molpadiida

Family: Caudinidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Hedingia mediterranea (Bartolini Baldelli, 1914)   (rediscovered) Mediterranean Rediscovered Access

 

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