Brisaster latifrons

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Brisaster latifrons
Brisaster latifrons (10.3897-zookeys.738.22927) Figure 3 (cropped).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Spatangoida
Family: Schizasteridae
Genus: Brisaster
Species:
B. latifrons
Binomial name
Brisaster latifrons
(Agassiz, 1898)

Brisaster latifrons is a species of sea urchins of the family Schizasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. Brisaster latifrons was first scientifically described in 1898 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz. [1]

They serve as hosts for the commensal epibiont Waldo arthuri , a galeommatid clam. [2]

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References

  1. Kroh, A. (2010). Brisaster latifrons (Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, 1898). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2010) World Echinoidea Database. at the World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Paul Valentich-Scott; Diarmaid Ó Foighil & Jingchun Li (12 July 2013). "Where's Waldo? A new commensal species, Waldo arthuri (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Galeommatidae), from the Northeastern Pacific Ocean". ZooKeys (316): 67–80. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.316.4256 . PMC   3713335 . PMID   23878515 . Retrieved July 21, 2013.