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Ammotrophus arachnoides

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Ammotrophus arachnoides
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A. arachnoides
Binomial name
Ammotrophus arachnoides
(Hubert Lyman Clark, 1938)

Ammotrophus arachnoides is a species of sand dollar of the family Arachnoididea. Their external skeleton [test] is covered with spines. It belongs to the genus Ammotrophus and lives in the sea off southern Australia. Ammotrophus arachnoides was first scientifically described in 1938 by Hubert Lyman Clark.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Kroh, A. (2010). Ammotrophus arachnoides (Hubert Lyman Clark, 1938). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2010) World Echinoidea Database. at the World Register of Marine Species.