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  8. ›Echinothurioida
Echinothuriidae
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Echinothuriidae

The Echinothuriidae are a family of sea urchins in the order Echinothurioida. Due to their soft skeletons, most are called "leather urchins", but species in the genus Asthenosoma are also known as "fire urchins" due to their bright colors and painful, venomous sting.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first

Echinothuriinae

subfamilyEchinothuriinae

Sperosomatinae

subfamilySperosomatinae

Hygrosomatinae

subfamilyHygrosomatinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143236.