cidaroida

{{Short description|Order of sea urchins}}

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| image = Cidaris cidaris MHNT.jpg

| image_caption = Cidaris cidaris

| fossil_range ={{Fossil range|Lower Permian|Recent}}

| taxon = Cidaroida

| authority = Claus, 1880

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = See text

}}

Cidaroida, also known as pencil urchins,[https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/8651/Zigler_and_Lessios_in_Biol_Bull.pdf..pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 250 Million Years of Bindin Evolution] is an order of primitive sea urchins, the only living order of the subclass Perischoechinoidea. All other orders of this subclass, which were even more primitive than the living forms, became extinct during the Mesozoic.

Description

Their primary spines are much more widely separated than in other sea urchins, and they have no buccal slits. Other primitive features include relatively simple plates in the test, and the ambulacral plates continuing as a series across the membrane that surrounds the mouth.

Families

File:Cidaridae - radiola.JPG]]

According to World Register of Marine Species:{{cite WoRMS |author=Kroh, A. |author2=Hansson, H. |year=2013 |title=Cidaroida |id=123099 |access-date=2013-12-31}}

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Image:Stylocidaris affinis.jpg|Stylocidaris affinis (Cidaridae)

Image:Notocidaris.jpg|Notocidaris sp. (Ctenocidaridae)

Image:Histocidaris variabilis.jpg|Histocidaris variabilis (Histocidaridae)

Image:Tylocidaris ohshimai.JPG|Tylocidaris ohshimai (Psychocidaridae)

Image:Miocidaris coaeva MHNT.PAL.2006.94.jpg|Miocidaris coaeva (Miocidaridae, fossil)

Image:Paracidaris florigemma.JPG|Paracidaris florigemma (Polycidaridae, fossil)

Image:Cidaris blakei.jpg|Cidaris blakei, abyssal Caribbean species

Image:Eucidaris tribuloides (Slate-pencil Urchin).jpg|Eucidaris tribuloides, shallow Caribbean species

Image:Phyllacanthus.jpg|Phyllacanthus imperialis, shallow Indo-Pacific species

Image:Plococidaris verticillata.jpg|Plococidaris verticillata, rare shallow Indo-Pacific species

Image:Prionocidaris baculosa.jpg|Prionocidaris baculosa, from Philippines

Image:Reef0228.jpg|Chondrocidaris gigantea, from Hawaii

References

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  • {{WRMS | 1130 | Cidaroida Claus, 1880 }}
  • {{cite book |author= Barnes, Robert D. |year=1982 |title= Invertebrate Zoology |publisher= Holt-Saunders International |location= Philadelphia, PA|page= 980|isbn= 0-03-056747-5}}
  • {{cite web | last = National History Museum | first = | title = Cidaroida | url = http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=1857 | access-date = 20 Dec 2009 }}

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Category:Cisuralian first appearances

Category:Extant Permian first appearances

Category:Echinoderm orders

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