Echinocardium australe

Echinocardium australe
Test of Echinocardium australe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Spatangoida
Family: Loveniidae
Genus: Echinocardium
Species: E. australe
Binomial name
Echinocardium australe
Gray, 1855

Echinocardium australe, or the New Zealand heart urchin is a sea urchin of the family Loveniidae, endemic to New Zealand. Length is up to 40 mm.

Underside view of test of Echinocardium australe

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