Diadematidae

Diadematidae

Diadema setosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Echinoidea
Subclass:	Euechinoidea
Superorder:	Diadematacea
Order:	Diadematoida
Family:	Diadematidae Gray, 1855 ^[1]

The Diadematidae are a family of sea urchins. Their tests are either rigid or flexible and their spines are long and hollow.^[2]

Astropyga (Gray, 1825)
- Astropyga radiata (Leske, 1778), extant
- Astropyga pulvinata (Lamarck, 1816), extant
- Astropyga magnifica (Clark, 1934), extant
Centrostephanus (Peters, 1855)
- Centrostephanus asteriscus (Agassiz & Clark, 1907), extant
- Centrostephanus coronatus (Verrill, 1867), extant
- Centrostephanus fragile (Wiltshire in Wright, 1882), Santonian, Maastrichtian, Danian
- Centrostephanus longispinus (Philippi, 1845), extant
- Centrostephanus nitidus (Koehler, 1927), extant
- Centrostephanus rodgersii (Agassiz, 1863), extant^[3]
Chaetodiadema (Mortensen, 1903)
- Chaetodiadema granulatum (Mortensen, 1903), extant
- Chaetodiadema keiense (Mortensen, 1903), extant
- Chaetodiadema tuberculatum (Clark, 1909), extant
Diadema (Humpfreys, 1797)
- Diadema palmeri (Baker, 1967), extant
- Diadema savignyi (Audouin, 1829), extant
- Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778), extant
- Diadema antillarum (Philippi, 1845), extant
- Diadema paucispinum (Agassiz, 1863), extant
- Diadema mexicanum (Agassiz, 1863), extant
- Diadema ascensionis (Mortensen, 1909), extant
Echinodiadema (Verrill, 1867)
- Echinodiadema coronata (Verrill, 1867), extant
Echinothrix (Peters, 1853)
- Echinothrix calamaris (Pallas, 1774), extant
- Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758), extant
Eodiadema, Lower Jurassic
Eremopyga (Agassiz & Clark, 1908)
- Eremopyga denudata (De Meijere, 1904), extant
Goniodiadema (Mortensen, 1939)
- Goniodiadema mauritiense (Mortensen, 1939), extant
Kamptosoma (Mortensen, 1903), extant
Palaeodiadema (Pomel, 1887), Santonian, Maastrichtian, Danian
Pedinothuria (Louis, 1897)
- Pedinothuria cidaroides (Gregory, 1897), Callovian, Oxfordian
Trichodiadema (Agassiz, 1863)
- Trichodiadema rodgersii (Agassiz, 1863), extant

References

↑ "Diadematidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
↑ Maran, Vincent (2010-11-11). "Astropyga radiata (Leske, 1778)". DORIS (in French). Retrieved 2013-01-22.
↑ "Black Sea Urchin". Museum Victoria. Retrieved 2011-05-13.

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