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Flat Sea Biscuit
Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sea stars, urchins & sea cucumbers

Flat Sea Biscuit

Clypeaster subdepressus (Gray, 1825)

Names

EnglishFlat Sea Biscuit
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Scientific nameClypeaster subdepressus (Gray, 1825)

About this species

Clypeaster subdepressus is a species of sea urchin in the family Clypeasteridae. This species was first scientifically described in 1825 by the British zoologist John Edward Gray. It is a very large and flattened sea biscuit, native to the east coasts of North, Central and South America.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumEchinodermata
ClassEchinoidea
OrderClypeasteroida
FamilyClypeasteridae
GenusClypeaster