Brissopsis Agassiz, 1840

Coppard, Simon E., 2008, A comparative analysis of the spatangoid echinoid genera Brissopsis and Metalia: a new genus and species of spatangoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Brissop- sidae) from the Philippines and the reassignment of Brissopsis persica to Metalia, Zootaxa 1760, pp. 1-23 : 2-3

Brissopsis Agassiz, 1840

Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, O. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. Jent and Gassmann, Solothurn, p. 3 and 16.

Type species: Brissopsis lyrifera Forbes, 1841 , by original designation.

Assigned species: Mortensen (1951a) lists seventeen Recent species and two varieties ( Brissopsis alta Mortensen, 1907 ; B. atlantica Mortensen, 1907 ; B. atlantica var. mediterranea Mortensen, 1913 ; B. bengalensis Koehler, 1914 ; B. columbaris Agassiz, 1898 ; B. elongata Mortensen, 1907 ; B. evanescens Mortensen, 1950 ; B. jarlii Mortensen, 1951 b; B. luzonica ( Gray, 1851) ; B. lyrifera ( Forbes, 1841) ; B. micropetala Mortensen, 1948 ; B. obliqua Mortensen, 1948 ; B. oldhami Alcock, 1893 ; B. pacifica ( Agassiz, 1898) ; B. parallela Koehler, 1914 ; B. persica Mortensen, 1940 ; B. persica var. elevata Mortensen, 1940 ; B. similis Mortensen, 1948 ; B. zealandiae Mortensen, 1921 ) and a further 75 fossil species in this genus.

Distribution: Eocene to Recent, Indo-Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean.