Spatangus

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Kingdom Animalia Superorder Atelostomata Phylum Echinodermata Order Spatangoida		Class Echinoidea Family Spatangidae Rank Genus

Similar Spatangoida, Echinocardium, Schizaster, Echinocyamus, Atelostomata

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Spatangus is a genus of heart urchins in the Spatangidae family. The genus is synonymous with the previously recognised genera Prospatangus Lambert, 1902 and Spatagus. There are nine recognised species. The Type species is Spatangus purpureus Müller, 1776 by subsequent designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995).

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Spatangus comprises marine heart urchins that feed on subsurface deposits and graze.

Fossil of heart urchins of this genus have been found in the sediments of Europe, United States, Egypt and Australia from Cretaceous to Pliocene (age range: 85.8 to 2.588 Ma).

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Species

Species within this genus include:

Spatangus altus Mortensen, 1907

Spatangus baixadoleitensis Maury, 1934a †

Spatangus beryl Fell, 1963

Spatangus brissus

Spatangus californicus H.L. Clark, 1917

Spatangus capensis Döderlein, 1905

Spatangus diomedeae Fell, 1963

Spatangus glenni Cooke, 1959 †

Spatangus inermis Mortensen, 1913

Spatangus luetkeni A. Agassiz, 1872

Spatangus lutkeni A. Agassiz, 1872

Spatangus mathesoni McKnight, 1968

Spatangus multispinus Mortensen, 1925

Spatangus pallidus H.L. Clark, 1908

Spatangus paucituberculatus A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907

Spatangus purpureus (O.F. Müller, 1776)

Spatangus raschi LovéN, 1869

Spatangus savignyi Fourtau

Spatangus subinermis Pomel, 1887

Spatangus tapinus Schenck, 1928 †

Spatangus thor Fell, 1963

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References

Spatangus Wikipedia

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How to pronounce spatangus

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