Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Irregularia > Subterclass Atelostomata > Order Spatangoida > Suborder Brissidina

Brissidae Gray, 1855

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brissopsinae Lambert, 1905
Brissus Gray, 1825
Metalia Gray, 1855
Plagiobrissus Pomel, 1883

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: heart urchins sources: Deméré, T. A. & Rugh, N. S. 2006. Invertebrates of the Imperia Sea. Pp. 43-69 in G. T. Jefferson & L. Lindsay (eds.) Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert Sunbelt Publications, El Cajon, CA.

Japanese: オオブンブク科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: lyrsjöborrar

Literature

basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
additional source	Kroh, A. & Smith, A.B. (2010): The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 8/2: 147-212.
identification resource	Smith, A.B. 2013. Key to genera of Brissidae. In: Smith, A.B. & Kroh, A. (editors) The Echinoid Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Brissidae Gray, 1855. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123173