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

Loveniidae Lambert, 1905

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Echinocardiinae Cooke, 1942

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: porcupine 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: ヒラタブンブク科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: hjärtsjöborrar

Literature

original description	Lambert, J. 1905. Notes sur quelques Échinides éocéniques de l'Aude et de l'Hérault. Pp. 129-164 in Doncieux, L. Catalogue descriptif des fossiles nummulitiques de l'Aude et de l'Hérault. Première Partie. Montagne Noire et Minervois. Annales de l'Université de Lyon, Nouvelle Série, I. Sciences, Médecine 17, 129-164.
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 Loveniidae. 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. Loveniidae Lambert, 1905. 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:123175