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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 or before Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Missing 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 - (rediscovered) 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 1991 or 2004 Tasmania, Australia Missing or Extinct Access

 

 

Class: Echinoidea

Order: Camarodonta

Family: Temnopleuridae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Amblypneustes elevatus 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
Ammotrophus crassus (Clark, 1938) - Mid-Holocene Western Australia, Australia Missing or Extinct Access

 

Order: Spatangoida

Family: Brissidae

—No subordinate taxa

 

Family: Loveniidae

Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Breynia vredenburgi Anderson, 1907 - (rediscovered) 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 horrifer

Théel, 1882 - (rediscovered) Southern Indian Ocean Rediscovered Access
             
Peniagone leander
Pawson & Foell, 1986 - (rediscovered) Pacific Ocean (incl. Mariana Trench area) Rediscovered Access
             
Penilpidia ludwigi (von Marenzeller, 1893) Ludwig's sea cucumber (rediscovered) 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

 

Statistics

Conservation status Number of taxa (in percentage)
   
Extinct 0
Missing 1 (7.7%)
Extinct in the Wild 0
Possibly Extinct in the Wild 0
Globally Rediscovered 10 (76.9%)
Rediscovered in the Wild 0
Hypothetical 0
Invalid 0
Erroneously listed 0
Uncertain status 2 (15.4%)
   
Total 13

 

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