Diadematidae
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Diadematidae is a family
of sea urchin
s.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of sea urchin
Sea urchin
Sea urchins or urchins are small, spiny, globular animals which, with their close kin, such as sand dollars, constitute the class Echinoidea of the echinoderm phylum. They inhabit all oceans. Their shell, or "test", is round and spiny, typically from across. Common colors include black and dull...
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- Astropyga (GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, 1825)- Astropyga radiataAstropyga radiataThe Red Urchin, Fire Urchin or False Fire Urchin, Astropyga radiata, is an urchin, with a test diameter of about 20 cm.It is found in the Indo-Pacific region....
(LeskeNathaniel Gottfried LeskeNathanael Gottfried Leske was a German natural scientist and geologist.After his studies at Bergakademie of Freiberg in Saxony and the Franckeschen Stiftungen in Halle, Leske became a special professor of natural history at the University of Leipzig in 1775.From 1777-1786 he taught economics at...
, 1778), extant - Astropyga pulvinata (LamarckJean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
, 1816), extant - Astropyga magnifica (ClarkHubert Lyman ClarkHubert Lyman Clark, Ph. D. was an American zoologist.Clark, son of William Smith Clark, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University....
, 1934), extant
- Astropyga radiata
- Centrostephanus (PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
, 1855)- Centrostephanus asteriscus (AgassizAlexander Emanuel AgassizAlexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...
& ClarkHubert Lyman ClarkHubert Lyman Clark, Ph. D. was an American zoologist.Clark, son of William Smith Clark, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University....
, 1907), extant - Centrostephanus coronatusCentrostephanus coronatusCentrostephanus coronatus, is a sea urchin in the family Diadematidae. It lives in holes and crevices is shallow rocky waters. Individuals forage within of their shelters, to which they return at night ....
(VerrillAddison Emery VerrillAddison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...
, 1867), extant - Centrostephanus fragile (WiltshireWiltshireWiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
in WrightWrightWright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term Wright comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word "wryhta" or "wyrhta", meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker , and is used as a British family name...
, 1882), SantonianLate CretaceousThe Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...
, Maastrichtian, DanianPaleoceneThe Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "early recent", is a geologic epoch that lasted from about . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era... - Centrostephanus longispinus (PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
, 1845), extant - Centrostephanus nitidus (KoehlerKoehlerKoehler is a transliteration of the German surname Köhler, referring to a man making charcoal from wood, and may refer to:-People:* Arthur Koehler, American investigator notable for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation...
, 1927), extant
- Centrostephanus asteriscus (Agassiz
- Chaetodiadema (Mortensen, 1903)
- Chaetodiadema granulatum (Mortensen, 1903), extant
- Chaetodiadema keiense (Mortensen, 1903), extant
- Chaetodiadema tuberculatum (ClarkHubert Lyman ClarkHubert Lyman Clark, Ph. D. was an American zoologist.Clark, son of William Smith Clark, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University....
, 1909), extant
- Diadema (Humpfreys, 1797)
- Diadema palmeriDiadema palmeriDiadema palmeri is a sea urchin of the family Diadematidae. It was first discovered by William Palmer, at a depth of about 40 m off the Poor Knights Islands , a small group off the temperate north eastern coast of New Zealand...
(Baker, 1967), extant - Diadema savignyi (MichelinMichelinMichelin is a tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the two largest tyre manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal tyre brands...
, 1845), extant - Diadema setosumDiadema setosumDiadema setosum is a species of long-spined sea urchin belonging to the family Diadematidae. It is a typical sea urchin, with extremely long, hollow spines that are mildly venomous. D. setosum differs from other Diadema with five, characteristic white dots that can be found on its body...
(LeskeNathaniel Gottfried LeskeNathanael Gottfried Leske was a German natural scientist and geologist.After his studies at Bergakademie of Freiberg in Saxony and the Franckeschen Stiftungen in Halle, Leske became a special professor of natural history at the University of Leipzig in 1775.From 1777-1786 he taught economics at...
, 1778), extant - Diadema antillarumDiadema antillarumDiadema antillarum, also known as the lime urchin, black sea urchin or the long-spined sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the Family Diadematidae.This sea urchin is characterized by its exceptionally long black spines....
(PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
, 1845), extant - Diadema paucispinum (AgassizAlexander Emanuel AgassizAlexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...
, 1863), extant - Diadema mexicanum (AgassizAlexander Emanuel AgassizAlexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...
, 1863), extant - Diadema ascensionis (Mortensen, 1909), extant
- Diadema palmeri
- Echinodiadema (VerrillAddison Emery VerrillAddison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...
, 1867)- Echinodiadema coronata (VerrillAddison Emery VerrillAddison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...
, 1867), extant
- Echinodiadema coronata (Verrill
- EchinothrixEchinothrixThe species of genus Echinothrix are types of sea urchin which were first described in 1853 by Wilhelm Peters, a German naturalist and explorer....
(PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
, 1853)- Echinothrix calamarisEchinothrix calamarisThe double spined urchin or banded sea urchin, Echinosloth calamaris, is a sea sloth with a test diameter of about 5 cm. It has two sets of spines, shorter closed spines which are dark in colour and can deliver a nasty sting, and longer open ended spines that are often banded...
(PallasPeter Simon PallasPeter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...
, 1774), extant - Echinothrix diademaEchinothrix diademaThe Diadema Urchin is a long spined urchin, with a diameter of about 8 cm. It is generally black in colour, and always dark. The spines are closed at the tip; the anal sac is spotted light and dark....
(LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
, 1758), extant
- Echinothrix calamaris
- Eodiadema, Lower Jurassic
- Eremopyga (AgassizAlexander Emanuel AgassizAlexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...
& ClarkHubert Lyman ClarkHubert Lyman Clark, Ph. D. was an American zoologist.Clark, son of William Smith Clark, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University....
, 1908)- Eremopyga denudata (De Meijere, 1904), extant
- Goniodiadema (Mortensen, 1939)
- Goniodiadema mauritiense (Mortensen, 1939), extant
- Kamptosoma (Mortensen, 1903), extant
- Palaeodiadema (PomelAuguste PomelAuguste Nicolas Pomel was a French geologist and paleontologistPomel was born in Issoire. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils...
, 1887), SantonianLate CretaceousThe Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...
, Maastrichtian, DanianPaleoceneThe Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "early recent", is a geologic epoch that lasted from about . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era... - Pedinothuria (LouisLouis-Surname:* Arthur Louis , British musician whose surname is pronounced 'Lewis'* Thomas Louis , British naval officer* Pierre Louÿs , French writer* Spyridon Louis , Greek runner...
, 1897)- Pedinothuria cidaroides (GregoryWilliam King GregoryWilliam King Gregory was an American zoologist, renowned as a primatologist, paleontologist, and functional and comparative morphologist. He was an expert on mammalian dentition, and a leading contributor to theories of evolution...
, 1897), CallovianMiddle JurassicThe Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....
, OxfordianLate JurassicThe Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...
- Pedinothuria cidaroides (Gregory
- Trichodiadema (AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
, 1863)- Trichodiadema rodgersii (AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
, 1863), extant
- Trichodiadema rodgersii (Agassiz