Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Echinodermata Klein, 1778

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Asterozoa Zittel, 1895
Crinozoa Matsumoto, 1929
Echinozoa Haeckel in Zittel, 1895

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: echinodermaten; stekelhuidigen 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: echinoderms

German: Stachelhäuter sources: Stöhr Sabine

Japanese: 棘皮動物門 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: tagghudingar

Literature

original description	Klein, J.T. (1778). Naturalis Dispositio Echinodermatum. Accessit Lucubratiuncula de Aculeis Echinorum Marinorum et Spe?cilegium de Belemnitis. Edita et Descriptionibus Novisque Inventis et Synonymis Auctorum Auca a Nathanaele Godofredo Leske. Officina Gleditdchiana, Lipsiae (Leipzig), xx + 278 pp., 54 pl.
basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Stokes, R. B. (2021). Attribution of the taxon name Echinodermata to Klein, 1778. Zootaxa. 5061(1): 199-200.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.