''Centrostephanus'' is a genus of
echinoderm
An echinoderm () is any animal of the phylum Echinodermata (), which includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers, as well as the sessile sea lilies or "stone lilies". While bilaterally symmetrical as ...
s belonging to the family
Diadematidae
The Diadematidae are a family of sea urchins. Their tests are either rigid or flexible and their spines are long and hollow.
* '' Astropyga'' Gray, 1825
**'' Astropyga radiata'' ( Leske, 1778), extant
**'' Astropyga pulvinata'' (Lamarck, 1816), ...
.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...
.
Species:
Fossils
* ''
Centrostephanus sacyi''
References
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Diadematidae
Echinoidea genera