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Echinoidea (sea urchins)
Rhynobrissus pyramidalis (lateral)
Description
Side view: The fine spines cover the test as densely as a fur. Below them the water currents flow over the epiderm and, maintained by the fascioles, provides the podia with oxygen when the animal burrows through the substrate.
Length with spines 45 mm; off north west Taiwan.
Author
Schultz, Heinke
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Echinoidea taxa
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Rhynobrissus pyramidalis
A. Agassiz, 1872
checked Kroh, Andreas 2021-02-24
From reference
Schultz, H. (2009). Sea urchins II: Worldwide irregular d...
© 2009 Schultz, Heinke
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