| Echinocardium pennatifidum | |
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| Specimen recorded off Torbay | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Echinoidea |
| Order: | Spatangoida |
| Family: | Loveniidae |
| Genus: | Echinocardium |
| Species: | E. pennatifidum |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinocardium pennatifidum Norman, 1868 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Echinocardium pennatifidum is a species of sea urchin in the family Loveniidae, chiefly found in the northeast Atlantic region. [2] [3]
Echinocardium pennatifidum is up to 7 cm (2.8 in) long. [4] It has coarser, more regularly arranged spines than other Echinocardium. The frontal ambulacrum is flush with the front of the heart-shaped test. It has a short labrum, not reaching the second pair of ambulacral plates. [5] The specific name means "cut into the shape of a feather." [6]
Found in the waters off Great Britain, Ireland, the North Sea and associated islands. [7]
Echinocardium pennatifidum buries itself in coarse sand or fine shell gravel in the sublittoral, from low on shore to depths of 150 m (490 ft). [4]
John Hancock was a British naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist and landscape architect. Working during the golden age of taxidermy when mounted animals became a popular part of Victorian era interior design, Hancock is considered the father of modern taxidermy
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