Echinoidea taxon details
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Diagnosis Comparatively large, sculptured temnopleurids with strongly crenulate tubercles and sharp gill slits. The pore-pairs of the ambulacra are uniserial, and the apical system is dicyclic. Strongly developed radiating sculpture on each plate may be lost during growth. The perignathic girdle consists of styliform auricles not united above the ambulacra. [details]
Etymology The generic name, from Kpvros, hidden, refers to the fact that, although the peculiarities of the type species were made known over seventy years ago, the species has been neglected as a synonym of 'Psammechinus' woodsi Laube by Australian workers ever since. [details]
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