beaked sea urchin
Echinocrepis rostrata Mironov, 1973
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Echinocrepis rostrata Mironov, 1973
- Name authority
- Mironov, 1973
- Common name
- beaked sea urchin
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Echinoidea
- Order
- Holasteroida
- Family
- Pourtalesiidae
- Genus
- Echinocrepis
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumEchinodermata
- subphylumEchinozoa
- classEchinoidea Schumacher, 1817
- subclassEuechinoidea Bronn, 1860
- infraclassIrregularia Latreille, 1825
- subterclassAtelostomata von Zittel, 1879
- orderHolasteroida Durham & Melville, 1957
- suborderMeridosternata Lovén, 1883
- infraorderUrechinina H.L. Clark, 1946
- familyPourtalesiidae A. Agassiz, 1881
- genusEchinocrepis A. Agassiz, 1879
- speciesEchinocrepis rostrata Mironov, 1973
Close classified relatives
No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Mironov, A. N. (1973). New deep-sea species of sea urchins of the genus Echinocrepis and the distribution of the family Pourtalesiidae. Echinoidea, Meridosterniana)]. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 91: 240–247. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:38HCH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.