Echinoidea

class of marine invertebrates
Taxon taxon Q83483
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Summary

Echinoidea is a taxon[1]. Echinoidea ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,419 views/month, #390 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: model organism[3]
  • Taxon rank: class[4]
  • Parent taxon: Echinozoa[5]
  • Taxon name: Echinoidea[6]
  • Commons category: Echinoidea[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Echinoidea[8]
  • Commons gallery: Sea urchin[9]
  • Described at URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a69443677/all-brain-creature/[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], New International Encyclopedia[18], Otto's encyclopedia[19], Pauly–Wissowa[20]
  • Taxon common name: Zee-egels[21], sjøpiggsvin[22], Seeigel[23]

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Identifiers

Echinoidea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47548[24]. Echinoidea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7625[25]. Echinoidea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1971[26]. Echinoidea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 221[27]. Echinoidea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 157821[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Echinoidea include oursinite[29], a mineral species[30].

Why It Matters

Echinoidea has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Echinoidea is known by 103 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for Echinoidea include oursinite[29], a mineral species[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [25] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [26] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [27] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . science.org. Retrieved . science.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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