Glyptocidaridae is a family of sea urchins in the order Stomopneustoida. It contains a single genus, Glyptocidaris, described by Alexander Agassiz in 1864, with one extant species, Glyptocidaris crenularis. M. Jensen erected the family in 1982 on the basis of a cladistic analysis of Euechinoidea. The species is found in the northwest Pacific Ocean, from Japan to Korea and northern China.
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Glyptocidaridae is a family of sea urchins in the order Stomopneustoida. It contains a single genus, Glyptocidaris, described by Alexander Agassiz in 1864, with one extant species, Glyptocidaris crenularis. M. Jensen erected the family in 1982 on the basis of a cladistic analysis of Euechinoidea. The species is found in the northwest Pacific Ocean, from Japan to Korea and northern China.
== Taxonomy == Alexander Agassiz described the genus Glyptocidaris and its type species G. crenularis in 1864, based on specimens collected by Dr. W. Stimpson during the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition. Its syntype (MCZ 1105) was collected from Hakodate, Japan.
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