Family ECHINIDAE
Compiler and date details
F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1995) Updated (2001) by Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Introduction
The family Echinidae is cosmopolitan, and includes 10 extant genera. Only two of the genera and two species are recorded in Australian waters.
Echinids are distinguished in the order Camarodonta by the following combination of character states: globiferous pedicellariae with one or more lateral teeth on each side of blade; ambulacral plates compounded, test not sculptured; ephiphyses meet in a suture over a deep foramen magnum in each pyramid forming a bridge; teeth keeled (lantern camarodont-type).
General References
Fell, H.B. & Pawson, D.L. 1966. Echinozoa: Echinacea. pp. U367-U440 figs 272-328 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 2.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 11-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |