Echinoidea

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Translingual

Echinus esculentus

Etymology

Echinus +‎ -oidea

Proper noun

Echinoidea

A taxonomic class within the phylum Echinodermata – sea urchins and sand dollars.^[1]

Hypernyms

(class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum; Echinozoa - subphylum^[1]

Hyponyms

(class): Euechinoidea (almost all extant species), Perischoechinoidea (primitive and extinct sea urchins) (subclasses)

OR

(class per Ruggiero): Cidaroidea, Euechinoidea - subclasses^[1]

Coordinate terms

(class per Ruggiero): Holothuroidea^[1]

References

Sea urchin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Echinoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Echinoidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Echinoidea at the Tree of Life Web Project

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI

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