Centrocidaris Agassiz 1904 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Parent taxon: Cidaridae according to U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein 1938

Sister taxa: Cidarinae, Cidarini, Cidaris, Dorocidaris, Goniocidarinae, Hesperocidaris, Phyllacanthina, Prionocidaris, Rhabdocidarinae, Stereocidarinae, Stylocidarinae, Triassicidaris

Subtaxa: Centrocidaris doderleini

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Centrocidaris in the database

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