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Brisaster latifrons

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Species of sea urchin

Brisaster latifrons
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.

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

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.
Taxon identifiers
Brisaster latifrons
Schizaster latifrons


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