List of echinoderm orders

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This List of echinoderm orders concerns the various classes and orders into which taxonomists categorize the roughly 7000 extant species{{cite web|url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Echinodermata.html|title=Animal Diversity Web - Echinodermata|publisher=University of Michigan Museum of Zoology|accessdate=26 August 2012}} as well as the extinct species of the exclusively marine phylum Echinodermata.

Subphylum [[Crinozoa]]

= Class [[Crinoidea]] =

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Image:Comaster schlegelii.JPG|Comaster schlegelii (Comatulida)

Image:Holopus 2.jpg|Holopus sp. (Cyrtocrinida)

Image:Encrinus liliiformis 4.JPG|Encrinus liliiformis (Encrinida)

Image:Calamocrinus diomedæ (Plate XXVIII) BHL4232451.jpg|Calamocrinus diomedae (Hyocrinida)

Image:Proisocrinus ruberrimus.jpg|Proisocrinus ruberrimus (Isocrinida)

Image:Liliocrinus polydactylus MHNT.jpg|Liliocrinus polydactylus {{nowrap|(Millericrinida)}}

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= Class [[Paracrinoid]]ea † =

No orders, 13 to 15 genera are known.

Doubtful paracrinoids:

  • Columbocystis
  • Foerstecystis
  • Springerocystis
  • Ulrichocystis
  • Paleocystites
  • Allocystites

= Class [[Cystoids|Cystoidea]] =

= Class [[Edrioasteroidea]] † =

Subphylum [[Asterozoa]]

= Class Ophiuroidea ([[Brittle star]]s) =

{{See also|List of prehistoric brittle stars}}

Image:Basket star feeding at night at the Red Sea.JPG|Astroboa nuda (Euryalida)

Image:Ophiura ophiura.jpg|Ophiura ophiura (Ophiurida)

Image:Ophiolepis elegans 600.jpg|Ophiolepis elegans (Amphilepidida)

Image:Ophiure noire à la Réunion.JPG|Ophiocoma erinaceus (Ophiacanthida)

Image:Ophioleuce seminudum (MNHN-IE-2013-10292) 02.jpg|Ophioleuce seminudum (Ophioleucida)

Image:Ophiomyces frutectosus (MNHN-IE-2013-10282) 02.jpg|Ophiomyces frutectosus (Ophioscolecida)

= Class Asteroidea ([[Starfish]]) =

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Image:Xyloplax janetae.jpg|Xyloplax janetae (Peripodida)

Image:Brisingid Seastar (Novodinia antillensis).jpg|Novodinia antillensis (Brisingida)

Image:Starfish, Oregon coast.jpg|Pisaster ochraceus (Forcipulatida)

Image:Echinaster sepositus Banyuls 03.jpg|Echinaster sepositus (Spinulosida)

Image:Cheiraster echinulatus.jpg|Cheiraster echinulatus (Notomyotida)

Image:Astropecten aranciacus Sardegna09 28cm 5520.jpg|Astropecten aranciacus (Paxillosida)

Image:Linckia laevigata Tonga.jpg|Linckia laevigata (Valvatida)

Image:Euretaster insignis.jpg|Euretaster insignis (Velatida)

Subphylum [[Echinozoa]]

= Class Echinoidea ([[Sea urchin]]s) =

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Image:Aspidodiadema arcitum.jpg|Aspidodiadema hawaiiense, an Aspidodiadematoida

Image:Diadema antillarum Flower Garden Banks.jpg|Diadema antillarum, a Diadematoida

Image:Caenopedina hawaiiensis.jpg|Caenopedina hawaiiensis, a Pedinoida

Image:Salenocidaris hastigera.png|Salenocidaris hastigera, a Salenioida

Image:Arbacia lixula (oursin noir).JPG|Arbacia lixula, an Arbacioida

Image:Strongylocentrotus franciscanus at Telegraph Cove.jpg|Strongylocentrotus franciscanus, a Camarodonta

Image:S. variolaris.jpg|Stomopneustes variolaris, a Stomopneustoida

Image:Toxic Leather Sea Urchin - Asthenosoma marisrubri.jpg|Asthenosoma marisrubri, an Echinothurioida

Image:Pourtalesia wandeli.png|Pourtalesia wandeli, a Holasteroida

Image:Tiny maretia heart urchin (Maretia planulata).jpg|Maretia planulata, a Spatangoida

Image:Echinoneus cyclostomus.jpg|Echinoneus cyclostomus, an Echinoneoida

Image:Clypeaster reticulatus.jpg| Clypeaster reticulatus, a Clypeasteroida

Image:Echinolampas depressa.png|Echinolampas depressa, an Echinolampadoida

Image:Eucidaris metularia à la Réunion.jpg|Eucidaris metularia, a Cidaroida

= Class Holothuroidea ([[Sea cucumber]]s) =

{{See also|List of prehistoric sea cucumbers}}

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Image:Euapta godeffroyi1.jpg|Euapta godeffroyi (Apodida)

Image:Cercodemas anceps Red box sea cucumber PC260152.JPG|Cercodemas anceps (Dendrochirotida)

Image:Scotoplanes globosa and crab.jpg|Scotoplanes globosa (Elasipodida)

Image:Holothuria cinerascens Réunion.jpg|Holothuria cinerascens (Holothuriida)

Image:See-through sea cucumber (Paracaudina australis).jpg|Paracaudina australis (Molpadida)

Image:Hansenothuria benti.png|Hansenothuria benti (Persiculida)

Image:Stichopus herrmanni (Mayotte).jpg|Stichopus herrmanni (Synallactida)

= Class [[Ophiocistioidea]] † =

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No orders recognized: class is divided up into four families, Eucladiidae, Sollasiniidae, Volchoviidae, and Rhenosquamidae. The inclusion of Rhenosquamidae within Ophiocistioidea is doubtful, as the organs identified in fossils of Rhenosquamus as the characteristic "scaly podia" otherwise diagnostic of ophiocistioids may not, in fact, be such structures.

= Class [[Helicoplacoidea]] † =

No known orders, 2 known species, Helicoplacus curtisi and H. guthi

Subphylum [[Blastozoa]]

= Class [[Blastoidea]] † =

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= Class [[Eocrinoidea]] † =

Subphylum [[Homostelea]] / [[Homalozoa]] †

= Class [[Ctenocystoidea]] † =

= Class [[Soluta (echinoderm)|Soluta]] † =

= Class [[Cincta]] † =

= Class [[Stylophora]] † =

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