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iNat·195835GenusAnimalia38 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Echinoderms
  3. ›sea urchins and sea cucumbers
  4. ›Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
  5. ›sea urchins
  6. ›Carinacea
  7. ›Echinacea
  8. ›Camarodonta
  9. ›Echinidea
  10. ›Odontophora
  11. ›Echinometridae
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Caenocentrotus

Caenocentrotus is a monotypic genus of sea urchins in the family Echinometridae. Its sole accepted species is Caenocentrotus gibbosus, a spine-covered sea urchin first scientifically described in 1846 by L. Agassiz, in L. Agassiz & Desor.

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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 195835.