Echinocardium
Appearance
Echinocardium | |
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Echinocardium cordatum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Echinoidea |
Order: | Spatangoida |
Family: | Loveniidae |
Genus: | Echinocardium J. E. Gray, 1825 |
Species | |
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Echinocardium is a genus of sea urchins of the family Loveniidae, known as heart urchins. The name is derived from the Greek ἐχῖνος (echinos, "hedgehog, urchin") and καρδία (kardia, "heart").[1]
Species
- Echinocardium australe Gray, 1855
- Echinocardium cordatum (Pennant, 1777)
- Echinocardium fenauxi Péquignat, 1963
- Echinocardium flavescens (Müller, 1776)
- Echinocardium gibbosus Agassiz & Desor, 1847
- Echinocardium intermedium Mortensen, 1907
- Echinocardium laevigaster Agassiz
- Echinocardium mediterraneum (Forbes, 1844)
- Echinocardium mortenseni Thiéry, 1909
- Echinocardium pennatifidum Norman, 1868
- Echinocardium sebae Gray
References
- ^ "Echinocardium". www.spektrum.de.