Arbacia
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Arbacia lixula
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Echinodermata
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Class:
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Echinoidea
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Order:
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Arbacioida
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Family:
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Arbaciidae
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Genus:
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Arbacia
Gray, 1835
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Test of a
Arbacia lixula.
Arbacia is a genus of sea urchins, widespread in the Atlantic and east pacific oceans.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species :
- Arbacia crenulata Kier, 1963 † (Miocene, east coast of USA)
- Arbacia dufresnii (Blainville, 1825) (Patagonia and Antarctica)
- Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean)
- Arbacia punctulata (Lamarck, 1816) (Caribbean)
- Arbacia rivuli Cooke, 1941a † (Pliocene, east coast of USA)
- Arbacia spatuligera (Valenciennes, 1846) (Peru and Chile)
- Arbacia stellata (Blainville, 1825; ?Gmelin, 1788) (East Pacific)
- Arbacia waccamaw Cooke, 1941a † (Pliocene, east coast of USA)