Levipalifer
Vaughan, 1900, p. 200
Levipalifer Vaughan, 1900, p. 200 is a junior synonym (available and invalid), see Deltocyathus Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848, p. 325.
Once considered to be a subgenus of Deltocyathus based on presence of pali before last cycle of septa, Cairns (1994, 55) synonymized Levipalifer with Deltocyathus.
Type Species
L. orientalis Vaughan, 1900, p. 200, pl. 16, figs. 3-7; Original Designation
Type Specimen: Holotype; USNM 19391; Verified; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Recent: off Japan.
=D. vaughani Yabe and Eguchi, 1932 (nomen substitutum), not D. orientalis Duncan, 1876). The type species is well described by Cairns (1994).
Classification
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