Subfamily Echinothuriinae Thomson 1872 (sea urchin)
Echinoidea - Echinothurioida - Echinothuriidae
Full reference: C. W. Thomson. 1872. Notice of a new family of the Echinodermata. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7:615-617
Parent taxon: Echinothuriidae according to H. B. Fell 1966
Sister taxa: Araeosoma, Hygrosomatinae, Sperosomatinae
Subtaxa: Asthenosoma Echinothuria
Type: Echinothuria
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Echinothuriinae in the database