Tripneustes

Tripneustes
Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Tripneustes ventricosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Camarodonta
Family: Toxopneustidae
Genus: Tripneustes
L. Agassiz, 1841

Tripneustes is a genus of sea urchins belonging to the family Toxopneustidae.[1]

Species

The genus contains four extant species:[1]

Image Scientific name Distribution
Tripneustes depressus Agassiz, 1863 eastern Pacific Ocean, occurring in Mexico, on the western coast of Central America, in Panama, in Ecuador and around the Galápagos Islands
Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758) Indo-Pacific, Hawaii, the Red Sea, and The Bahamas.
Tripneustes kermadecensis Bronstein, Kroh, Tautscher, Liggins & Haring, 2017 southern Pacific Ocean, off the Kermadec Islands
Tripneustes ventricosus (Lamarck, 1816) western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico

This genus contains many extinct species, such as:

[2][3]

Distribution

These sea urchins have been recorded as fossils from Miocene to Recent (from 15.97 to 0.0 Ma). Fossils have been found in the sediments of Southern Europe, Mediterranean and North Africa, Caribbean, Western coast of America and throughout the Indo-Pacific.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Kroh A, Mooi R, eds. (2019). "Tripneustes L. Agassiz, 1841". World Echinoidea Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b Natural History Museum
  3. ^ Paleobiology Database


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