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

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Type: Echinothuria

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Echinothuriinae in the database

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