Echinoida Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent |
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Echinus melo | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Echinoidea |
Subclass: | Euechinoidea |
Superorder: | Echinacea |
Order: |
Echinoida Troschal, 1872 |
Families | |
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Echinoida is an order of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. They are distinguished from other sea urchins by simultaneously possessing both an un-sculpted test and a feeding lantern with large plates fused across the top of each pyramid.
Order Echinoida
Paracentrotus lividus (Echinidae)
Echinometra lucunter (Echinometridae)
Strongylocentrotus franciscanus (Strongylocentrotidae)