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  4. ›Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
  5. ›sea urchins
  6. ›irregular sea urchins
  7. ›Neognathostomata
  8. ›Sand Dollars and Sea Biscuits
  9. ›Sea Biscuits
  10. ›Sea Biscuits
  11. ›Sea Biscuits
  12. ›Arachnoidinae
  13. ›Arachnoides
Cake Sand Dollar
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Cake Sand Dollar

Arachnoides placenta

Arachnoides placenta is a species of sea urchin of the family Clypeasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. It is placed in the genus Arachnoides and lives in the sea. Arachnoides placenta was first scientifically described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus.

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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 348184.