''Echinocardium'' is a genus of

sea urchin 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) ...

s of the

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Loveniidae, known as heart urchins.

Species

* '' Echinocardium australe'' Gray, 1855 * ''

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'' ( Pennant, 1777) * '' Echinocardium fenauxi'' Péquignat, 1963 * '' Echinocardium flavescens'' (

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, 1776) * '' Echinocardium gibbosus''

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& Desor, 1847 * '' Echinocardium intermedium'' Mortensen, 1907 * '' Echinocardium laevigaster''

* '' Echinocardium mediterraneum'' (Forbes, 1844) * '' Echinocardium mortenseni'' Thiéry, 1909 * '' Echinocardium pennatifidum'' Norman, 1868 * '' Echinocardium sebae'' Gray

References

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Spatangoida Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{echinoidea-stub