Camarodonta
| Camarodonta | |
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| Paracentrotus lividus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Superorder: | Echinacea |
| Order: |
Camarodonta Jackson, 1912 |
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The Camarodonta are an order of globular sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. The fossil record shows that camarodonts have been in existence since the Lower Cretaceous.
All camarodonts have imperforate tubercles and compound ambulacral plates with the lowest elements enlarged. The pores are at regular intervals along the ambulacral plates from the apex to the mouth opening or peristome. The Aristotle's lantern, or jaw system, has keeled teeth with the supports meeting above the "foramen magnum".
According to World Register of Marine Species:
Echinometra lucunter, Echinometridae
Strongylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotidae
Tripneustes ventricosus, Toxopneustidae
Paracentrotus lividus, Parechinidae
Parasalenia poehlii, Parasaleniidae
Microcyphus rousseaui, Temnopleuridae
Asterechinus elegans, Trigonocidaridae
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