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Heterocentrotus
''Heterocentrotus'' is a genus of slate pencil urchins, part of the familia Echinometridae. They are mainly found in the Indo-Pacific basin, especially in Reunion or Hawaii. This genus appeared in the Miocene and spread throughout the warm Indo-Pacific. Description ''Heterocentrotus'' are brightly colored tropical sea urchins with very thick spines that have given them the nickname "pencil urchins". The genus consists of sea urchins with rounded (but slightly elliptical) test, with the peristome (mouth) located in the center of the oral surface (lower) and the periproct at opposite, at the apex of the aboral (upper) face. The apical disc is dicyclic, with a reduced periproct. The peristome is also reduced and elliptical, with limited mouth notches. The ambulacrum Ambulacrum is an architectural word that denotes an atrium, courtyard, or parvise in front of a basilica or church that is surrounded by arcades or colonnades, or trees, and which often contains a fountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterocentrotus Mamillatus
''Heterocentrotus mamillatus'', commonly known as the slate pencil urchin, red slate pencil urchin, or red pencil urchin, is a species of tropical sea urchin from the Indo-Pacific region. Description This species is a large sea urchin, with some specimens reaching over 8 cm in diameter, with spikes up to 10 cm. Most specimens are bright red, but brown and purple colorations are also seen. The spines may have a different color from the body. Spines have a white ring at their stem and have alternating light and dark rings. The spines are rounded to triangular in cross-section and taper towards the tip. Surprisingly during the night the red spines turn into a chalky pink. Specimens from Hawai‘i tend to have bright red spines, while specimens from other parts of the Pacific may have yellowish or brown spines. Other variations of ''H. mammillatus'', such as those living on the Ogasawara Islands, have slimmer spines instead of the species' characteristic thick, broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterocentrotus Trigonarius Réunion
''Heterocentrotus'' is a genus of slate pencil urchins, part of the familia Echinometridae. They are mainly found in the Indo-Pacific basin, especially in Reunion or Hawaii. This genus appeared in the Miocene and spread throughout the warm Indo-Pacific. Description ''Heterocentrotus'' are brightly colored tropical sea urchins with very thick spines that have given them the nickname "pencil urchins". The genus consists of sea urchins with rounded (but slightly elliptical) test, with the peristome (mouth) located in the center of the oral surface (lower) and the periproct at opposite, at the apex of the aboral (upper) face. The apical disc is dicyclic, with a reduced periproct. The peristome is also reduced and elliptical, with limited mouth notches. The ambulacrum are polygeminate, with between 9 and 14 pairs of pores per plate, arranged in more or less regular arcs, sometimes almost in bands. All ambulacral plates bear a single, large primary tubercle, occupying almost the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterocentrotus Mamillatus Test Aboral
''Heterocentrotus'' is a genus of slate pencil urchins, part of the familia Echinometridae. They are mainly found in the Indo-Pacific basin, especially in Reunion or Hawaii. This genus appeared in the Miocene and spread throughout the warm Indo-Pacific. Description ''Heterocentrotus'' are brightly colored tropical sea urchins with very thick spines that have given them the nickname "pencil urchins". The genus consists of sea urchins with rounded (but slightly elliptical) test, with the peristome (mouth) located in the center of the oral surface (lower) and the periproct at opposite, at the apex of the aboral (upper) face. The apical disc is dicyclic, with a reduced periproct. The peristome is also reduced and elliptical, with limited mouth notches. The ambulacrum are polygeminate, with between 9 and 14 pairs of pores per plate, arranged in more or less regular arcs, sometimes almost in bands. All ambulacral plates bear a single, large primary tubercle, occupying almost the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterocentrotus Trigonarius
''Heterocentrotus trigonarius'', commonly known as the slate pencil urchin or red slate pencil urchin, is found in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ... region. '' Heterocentrotus mamillatus'' is a similar, related species. References UC Berkeley Moorea Biocode listingWorld Register of Marine Species listing Heterocentrotus Animals described in 1816 {{echinoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echinometridae
The Echinometridae are a family of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. Characteristics All Echinometridae have imperforate tubercles and compound ambulacral plates. The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2011-08-27. Genera *'' Anthocidaris'' A. Agassiz, 1863 *'' Caenocentrotus'' H.L. Clark, 1912 *'' Colobocentrotus'' Brandt, 1835 *'' |
Echinoidea
Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin live on the seabed of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of sea urchins are round and spiny, ranging in diameter from . Sea urchins move slowly, crawling with tube feet, and also propel themselves with their spines. Although algae are the primary diet, sea urchins also eat slow-moving (sessile) animals. Predators that eat sea urchins include a wide variety of fish, starfish, crabs, marine mammals. Sea urchins are also used as food especially in Japan. Adult sea urchins have fivefold symmetry, but their pluteus larvae feature bilateral (mirror) symmetry, indicating that the sea urchin belongs to the Bilateria group of animal phyla, which also comprises the chordates and the arthropods, the annelids and the molluscs, and are found in every ocean and in every climate, from the tropics to the polar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echinoida
Echinoida is an order of sea urchins in the class Echinoidea. They are distinguished from other sea urchins by simultaneously possessing both an un-sculpted test and a feeding lantern with large plates fused across the top of each pyramid. Taxonomy Order Echinoida * family Echinidae Gray, 1825 * family Echinometridae Gray, 1825 * family Parasaleniidae * family Strongylocentrotidae Gregory, 1900 Image:Paracentrotus lividus profil.JPG, ''Paracentrotus lividus'' ( Echinidae) Image:Echinometra lucunter.jpg, '' Echinometra lucunter'' ( Echinometridae) Image:Urchinhand 300.jpg, '' Strongylocentrotus franciscanus'' ( Strongylocentrotidae) See also *''Colobocentrotus atratus'' - Shingle urchin *'' Echinus acutus'' - White sea urchin *'' Echinus esculentus'' - Common sea urchin *'' Echinus tylodes'' *''Evechinus chloroticus'' - New Zealand sea urchin *'' Heterocentrotus mammillatus'' - Red pencil urchin *'' Heterocentrotus trigonarius'' - Slate pencil urchin *''Loxechinus albus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test (biology)
In biology, a test is the hard shell of some spherical marine animals and protists, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans, radiolarians, and testate amoebae. The term is also applied to the covering of scale insects. The related Latin term testa is used for the hard seed coat of plant seeds. Etymology The anatomical term "test" derives from the Latin ''testa'' (which means a rounded bowl, amphora or bottle). Structure The test is a skeletal structure, made of hard material such as calcium carbonate, silica, chitin or composite materials. As such, it allows the protection of the internal organs and the attachment of soft flesh. In sea urchins The test of sea urchins is made of calcium carbonate, strengthened by a framework of calcite monocrystals, in a characteristic "stereomic" structure. These two ingredients provide sea urchins with a great solidity and a moderate weight, as well as the capacity to regenerate the mesh from the cuticle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambulacrum (anatomy)
In zoology, an ambulacrum is an elongated area of the shell of an echinoderm in which a row of tube feet are arranged. It is pluralized as ''ambulacra''. The area on the shell between ambulacra is known as an interambulacrum Ambulacral is a term typically used in the context of anatomical parts of the phylum Echinodermata or class Asteroidea and Edrioasteroidea. Echinoderms can have ambulacral parts that include ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers. For example, se .... References Echinoderm anatomy {{echinoderm-anatomy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
