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Definition of Echinoidea

Echinoidea
Echinoidea Ech`i*noi"de*a, n. pl. [NL. See Echinus, and -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

Meaning of Echinoidea from wikipedia

- (/ˈɜːrtʃɪnz/) are typically spiny, globular animals, echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species live on the seabed, inhabiting all oceans and depth...
- The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names...
- The marine waters of the Houtman Abrolhos, an island chain off the coast of Western Australia, has been recorded as containing 172 species of echinoderm...
- This List of echinoderm orders concerns the various classes and orders into which taxonomists categorize the roughly 7000 extant species as well as the...
- and does not pose a serious threat to humans. As a member of the class Echinoidea, the anatomy of Diadema setosum is that of a typical sea urchin. All of...
- The Echinothurioida are an order of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. Echinothurioids are distinguished from other sea urchins by the combination of...
- 1900 species), Ophiuroidea (brittle stars, with around 2,300 species), Echinoidea (sea urchins and sand dollars, with some 900 species), Holothuroidea (sea...
- The Camarodonta are an order of globular sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. The fossil record shows that camarodonts have been in existence since the...
- Glyphocyphidae is an extinct family of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. These slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazers lived from the Cretaceous to...
- Accessed 20 September 2011. A new species of Coelopleurus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Arbaciidae) from New Caledoni. Zootaxa, Magnolia Press. 7 August 2006...