Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa

Echinoidea Leske, 1778

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cidaroidea Smith, 1984
Euechinoidea Bronn, 1860

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zeeappels; zee-egels sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: sea urchins; sea-urchins sources: Hayward, P.J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: sea-urchins sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: sjöborrar

Literature

basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351
additional source	Kroh, A. & Smith, A.B. (2010): The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8/2: 147-212.

Genbank

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Citation

Kroh, A. (2014). Echinoidea. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123082