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  4. ›Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
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  7. ›Neognathostomata
  8. ›Apatopygidae
  9. ›Apatopygus
Apatopygus occidentalis
Plate 1 of 1. Hubert Lyman Clark (Public domain) · via Wikimedia

Apatopygus occidentalis

Apatopygus occidentalis is a species of sea urchin of the family Apatopygidae. Their armour is covered with spines. It is placed in the genus Apatopygus and lives in the sea. Apatopygus occidentalis was first scientifically described in 1928 by Hubert Lyman Clark, American zoologist.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1163271.