Salenioida
| Salenioida Temporal range:
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| Salenia petalifera | |
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| Phylum: | Echinodermata
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| Class: | Echinoidea
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| Order: | Salenioida Delage, 1903
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The Salenioida are an order of sea urchins.
Description and characteristics[]
They are distinguished from other sea urchins by the presence of a large plate on the upper surface, with the anus to one side. They have very large tubercles between the ambulacral plates, and much smaller ones on the ambulacral plates themselves.
Taxonomy[]
According to World Register of Marine Species :
- family Saleniidae L. Agassiz, 1838
- family Gregory, 1900†
- family Smith & Wright, 1990†
- family Mortensen, 1934†
- family Vadet, 1999b†
References[]
- Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 980. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.
- National History Museum. "Selenioida". Retrieved 19 Dec 2009.
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