Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Aulodonta > Superorder Echinothuriacea > Order Echinothurioida

Echinothuriidae Thomson, 1872

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Echinothuridae*		orthographic variant

Children

Echinothuriinae Thomson, 1872
Hygrosomatinae Smith & Wright, 1990
Sperosomatinae Smith & Wright, 1990

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フクロウニ科

Literature

original description	Thomson, C.W. (1872). Notice of a New Family of the Echinodermata. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 7: 615-617.
basis of record	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 Echinothuriidae. 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. Echinothuriidae Thomson, 1872. 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:160734