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Echinidae
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Echinidae

Echinidae is a family of sea urchins in the order Echinoida. Members of the family are found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Echinus

genusEchinus

Gracilechinus

genusGracilechinus

Sterechinus

genusSterechinus

Polyechinus

genusPolyechinus

Dermechinus

genusDermechinus

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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 48034.