Kleinia Gray

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brissidina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Echinoidea Subclassis: Euechinoidea Superordo: Atelostomata Ordo: Spatangoida Subordo: Brissidina

Familia: Brissidae
Genus: Kleinia
Species:

• Transferred to other genera (5): K. atlantica – K. elongata – K. luzonica – K. oldhami – K. pacifica
  

• In synonymy (1): K. nigra
  

Name

Kleinia Gray, 1851

• ZooBank: B63AA697-11CE-498C-BEF4-AD75A531ACFA

• Type species: Kleinia luzonica Gray, 1851, by monotypy.

• Status:   junior subjective synonym   of Brissopsis L Agassiz, 1840

Synonymy

• Kleinia Gray, 1851: 133; — Pomel, 1883: 33.

References

• Gray, J.E. 1851. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Spatangidae in the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology (2)7(2): 130–134. BHL. Reference page. 
• Pomel, A.N. 1883. Classification méthodique et Genera des Échinides vivantes et fossiles. Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles. Alger: A. Jourdan. 131 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Kleinia Gray, 1851 in the World Echinoidea Database, accessed on February 17, 2026