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Jackson, R. T. 1912. Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of Palaeozoic species Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 7, 491 pp. 76 pls.

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More than 285 species have been assigned to this genus (Roman, 1965, p. 689). Due to the very large number of species, several attempts have been made to subdivide this genus into subgenera or ...

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Use % as a wildcard in the Associate species field to return all species in your host genus (NB - this will exclude records for which the associate species is not known). Note: it has not been ...