Diadematidae
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Diadematidae is a family
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 (Gray
    John Edward Gray
    John 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 radiata
      Astropyga radiata
      The 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....

      (Leske
      Nathaniel Gottfried Leske
      Nathanael 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 (Lamarck
      Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
      Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...

      , 1816), extant
    • Astropyga magnifica (Clark
      Hubert Lyman Clark
      Hubert 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
  • Centrostephanus (Peters
    Wilhelm Peters
    Wilhelm 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 (Agassiz
      Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
      Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...

       & Clark
      Hubert Lyman Clark
      Hubert 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 coronatus
      Centrostephanus coronatus
      Centrostephanus 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 ....

      (Verrill
      Addison Emery Verrill
      Addison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...

      , 1867), extant
    • Centrostephanus fragile (Wiltshire
      Wiltshire
      Wiltshire 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 Wright
      Wright
      Wright 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), Santonian
      Late Cretaceous
      The 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, Danian
      Paleocene
      The 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 (Philippi
      Rodolfo Amando Philippi
      Rodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....

      , 1845), extant
    • Centrostephanus nitidus (Koehler
      Koehler
      Koehler 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
  • Chaetodiadema (Mortensen, 1903)
    • Chaetodiadema granulatum (Mortensen, 1903), extant
    • Chaetodiadema keiense (Mortensen, 1903), extant
    • Chaetodiadema tuberculatum (Clark
      Hubert Lyman Clark
      Hubert 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 palmeri
      Diadema palmeri
      Diadema 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 (Michelin
      Michelin
      Michelin 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 setosum
      Diadema setosum
      Diadema 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...

      (Leske
      Nathaniel Gottfried Leske
      Nathanael 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 antillarum
      Diadema antillarum
      Diadema 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....

      (Philippi
      Rodolfo Amando Philippi
      Rodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....

      , 1845), extant
    • Diadema paucispinum (Agassiz
      Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
      Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...

      , 1863), extant
    • Diadema mexicanum (Agassiz
      Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
      Alexander 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
  • Echinodiadema (Verrill
    Addison Emery Verrill
    Addison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...

    , 1867)
    • Echinodiadema coronata (Verrill
      Addison Emery Verrill
      Addison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...

      , 1867), extant
  • Echinothrix
    Echinothrix
    The species of genus Echinothrix are types of sea urchin which were first described in 1853 by Wilhelm Peters, a German naturalist and explorer....

    (Peters
    Wilhelm Peters
    Wilhelm 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 calamaris
      Echinothrix calamaris
      The 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...

      (Pallas
      Peter Simon Pallas
      Peter 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 diadema
      Echinothrix diadema
      The 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....

      (Linnaeus
      Carolus Linnaeus
      Carl 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
  • Eodiadema, Lower Jurassic
  • Eremopyga (Agassiz
    Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
    Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...

     & Clark
    Hubert Lyman Clark
    Hubert 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 (Pomel
    Auguste Pomel
    Auguste 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), Santonian
    Late Cretaceous
    The 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, Danian
    Paleocene
    The 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 (Louis
    Louis
    -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 (Gregory
      William King Gregory
      William 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), Callovian
      Middle Jurassic
      The 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....

      , Oxfordian
      Late Jurassic
      The 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...

  • Trichodiadema (Agassiz
    Louis Agassiz
    Jean 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 (Agassiz
      Louis Agassiz
      Jean 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
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