Aplocidaris Lambert and Thiéry 1909 (pencil urchin)

Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Miocidaridae

Full reference: J. Lambert and P. Thiéry. 1909. Essai de Nomenclature Raisonnée des Echinides. L. Ferrière, Chaumont (1)1-80

Parent taxon: Miocidaridae according to H. B. Fell 1966

Sister taxa: Anaulocidaris, Couvelardicidaris, Dicyclocidaris, Eotiaris, Miocidaris, Pachycidaris, Panniericidaris, Permocidaris, Procidaris

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer-omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Aplocidaris in the database

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