Dendraster
| Eccentric Sand Dollar or Western Sand Dollar | |
|---|---|
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| Ganges Harbour, British Columbia, Canada | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Order: | Clypeasteroida |
| Suborder: | Scutellina |
| Family: | Dendrasteridae Lambert, 1900 |
| Genus: | Dendraster L. Agassiz, 1847[1] |
Dendraster is a genus of sand dollars of the family Dendrasteridae[2] within the order Clypeasteroida. The extant species in this genus are found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.[3] The best-known, most common and widespread species is D. excentricus.[3]
Species
Listed alphabetically.[4][5][6]
- Dendraster ashleyi (Arnold) †
- Dendraster casseli Grant & Hertlein, 1938 †
- Dendraster elsmerensis Durham, 1949 †
- Dendraster excentricus (Eschscholtz, 1831)
- Dendraster gibbsii (Remond) †
- Dendraster laevis H. L. Clark, 1948
- Dendraster pacificus Kew, 1920 †
- Dendraster perrini (Weaver 1908) †
- Dendraster rugosus H. L. Clark
- Dendraster terminalis (Grant & Hertlein 1938)
- Dendraster vizcainoensis Grant and Hertlein, 1938
References
- ↑ Dendraster, The World Echinoidea Database
- ↑ Dendrasteridae, The World Echinoidea Database
- 1 2 Mooi, R. (1997). Sand Dollars of the genus Dendraster (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida): Phylogenetic systematics, heterochrony, and distribution of extant species. Bulletin of Marine Species 61(2): 343–375.
- ↑ Dendraster, Encyclopedia of Life
- ↑ Organism Names
- ↑ Universal Biological Indexer
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