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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Echinoderms
  4. Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
  5. Echinacea
  6. Camarodonta

order

Camarodonta

Camarodonta

Includes
15 native 5 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

The Camarodonta are an order of globular sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. The fossil record shows that camarodonts have been in existence since the Lower Cretaceous.

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  • Echinidea 15 native
  • Temnopleuridea
  • Parasaleniidae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native Camarodonta All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Pacific Purple Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus 20,153 observations
  • Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin Echinometra mathaei 6,637 observations
  • Red Sea Urchin Mesocentrotus franciscanus 5,677 observations
  • Collector Urchin Tripneustes gratilla 3,914 observations
  • Red Pencil Urchin Heterocentrotus mamillatus 2,767 observations
  • Shingle Urchin Colobocentrotus atratus 2,339 observations
  • White Sea Urchin Lytechinus pictus 294 observations
  • Warty Sand Urchin Nudechinus verruculatus 36 observations

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