Podocidaris Agassiz 1869 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Arbacioida - Arbaciidae

Full reference: A. Agassiz. 1869. Preliminary report on the echini and starfishes dredged in deep water between Cuba and the Florida Reef, by LF de Pourtalès, Assist. US Coast Survey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zolology at Harvard College 1:253-308

Parent taxon: Arbaciidae according to H. B. Fell and D. L. Pawson 1966

Sister taxa: Acropeltis, Acrosaster, Arbacia, Arbaciella, Arbia, Atopechinus, Baueria, Codiopsis, Coelopleuridae, Coelopleurus, Echinocidaris, Glypticus, Goniopygus, Hattopsis, Heteropodia, Magnosia, Noetlingaster, Pleiocyphus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Podocidaris in the database

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