Family Cidaridae Gray 1825 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1825. An attempt to divide the Echinida, or Sea Eggs, into natural families. Annals of Philosophy, new series 10:423-431

Parent taxon: Cidaridea according to A. Kroh and A. B. Smith 2010

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Donovan 1993, Donovan et al. 2005, Fell 1966, Grant and Hertlein 1938, Gravesen 1993, Kew 1920, Nisiyama 1966, Smith 1991, Smith 1995 and Smith 2009

Sister taxa: Ctenocidaridae, Paurocidaris, Plegiocidaris, Psychocidaridae

Subtaxa: Centrocidaris Cidarinae Cidarini Cidaris Dorocidaris Goniocidarinae Hesperocidaris Phyllacanthina Prionocidaris Rhabdocidarinae Stereocidarinae Stylocidarinae Triassicidaris

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

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