Family Ctenocidaridae Mortensen 1928 (pencil urchin)
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Ctenocidaridae
Alternative spellings: Ctenocidarina, Ctenocidarinae
Full reference: T. Mortensen. 1928. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London 1-551
Parent taxon: Cidaridea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010
See also Fell 1966, Mortensen 1928 and Smith 2009
Sister taxa: Cidaridae, Paurocidaris, Plegiocidaris, Psychocidaridae
Subtaxa: Ctenocidaris Notocidaris
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ctenocidaridae in the database