Tribe Cidarini Gray 1825 (pencil urchin)
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Parent taxon: Cidaridae according to A. B. Smith 1995
Sister taxa: Centrocidaris, Cidarinae, Cidaris, Dorocidaris, Goniocidarinae, Hesperocidaris, Phyllacanthina, Prionocidaris, Rhabdocidarinae, Stereocidarinae, Stylocidarinae, Triassicidaris
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cidarini in the database