Echinocyamus pusillus
| Echinocyamus pusillus | |
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| Aboral view of live E. pusillus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Order: | Clypeasteroida |
| Family: | Fibulariidae |
| Genus: | Echinocyamus |
| Species: | E. pusillus |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinocyamus pusillus (O.F. Müller, 1776) | |
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Echinocyamus pusillus, commonly known as the pea urchin or green urchin, is a species of sand dollar, a sea urchin in the family Fibulariidae, native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It buries itself in gravel or coarse sand at depths down to about 1,250 m (4,000 ft).
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