''Lytechinus'' is a
genus
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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) of ...
s.
Species
The following extant species are listed in this genus by the
World Register of Marine Species
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* '' Lytechinus callipeplus'' H.L. Clark, 1912
* '' Lytechinus euerces'' H.L. Clark, 1912
* '' Lytechinus panamensis'' Mortensen, 1921
* '' Lytechinus pictus'' (Verrill, 1867)
* '' Lytechinus semituberculatus'' (Valenciennes in L. Agassiz, 1846)
* ''Lytechinus variegatus
''Lytechinus variegatus'', commonly called the green sea urchin or the variegated sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin that can be found in the warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
Subspecies
There are four subspec ...
'' (Lamarck, 1816)
* ''Lytechinus williamsi
''Lytechinus williamsi'', the jewel urchin, is a sea urchin in the family Toxopneustidae. It occurs on shallow reefs off the coasts of Panama, Belize, the Florida Keys and Jamaica.
Description
The jewel urchin grows to a diameter of about and ...
'' Chesher, 1968
References
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Echinoidea genera
Taxa named by Alexander Agassiz
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