Eucidaris
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| Eucidaris tribuloides on a brain coral | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Subclass: | Perischoechinoidea |
| Order: | Cidaroida |
| Family: | Cidaridae |
| Genus: | Eucidaris Pomel, 1883[1] |
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Eucidaris is a genus of cidaroid sea urchins known as slate pencil urchins. They are characterised by a moderately thick test, a usually monocyclic apical disc, perforate and non-crenulate tubercles and nearly straight ambulacra with horizontal pore pairs. The primary spines are few and widely spaced, stout with blunt flat tips and beaded ornamentation and the secondary spines are short and apressed. They originated in the Miocene and extant members of the genus are found in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.[2]
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species:[1]
- Eucidaris australiae Mortensen, 1950
- Eucidaris galapagensis Döderlein, 1887
- Eucidaris metularia (Lamarck, 1816)
- Eucidaris thouarsii (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846)
- Eucidaris tribuloides (Lamarck, 1816)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroh, Andreas (2012). "Eucidaris Pomel, 1883". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
- ↑ "Eucidaris Pomel, 1883". The Echinoid Directory. The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2013-03-22.