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List of echinoderm orders

This List of echinoderm orders concerns the various classes and orders into which taxonomists categorize the roughly 7000 extant species as well as the extinct species of the exclusively marine phylum Echinodermata.

Subphylum Crinozoa

Class Crinoidea

Class Paracrinoidea â€Â

No orders, 13 to 15 genera are known.

Doubtful paracrinoids:

  • Columbocystis
  • Foerstecystis
  • Springerocystis
  • Ulrichocystis
  • Paleocystites
  • Allocystites

Class Cystoidea

Class Edrioasteroidea â€Â

Subphylum Asterozoa

Class Ophiuroidea (Brittle stars)

Class Asteroidea (Starfish)

Subphylum Echinozoa

Class Echinoidea (Sea urchins)

Class Holothuroidea (Sea cucumbers)

Class Ophiocistioidea â€Â

No orders recognized: class is divided up into four families, Eucladiidae, Sollasiniidae, Volchoviidae, and Rhenosquamidae. The inclusion of Rhenosquamidae within Ophiocistioidea is doubtful, as the organs identified in fossils of Rhenosquamus as the characteristic "scaly podia" otherwise diagnostic of ophiocistioids may not, in fact, be such structures.

Class Helicoplacoidea â€Â

No known orders, 2 known species, Helicoplacus curtisi and H. guthi

Subphylum Blastozoa

Class Blastoidea â€Â

Class Eocrinoidea â€Â

Subphylum Homostelea / Homalozoa â€Â

Class Ctenocystoidea â€Â

Class Soluta â€Â

Class Cincta â€Â

Class Stylophora â€Â

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