Arachnoides
Arachnoides is a genus of sea urchin within the family Clypeasteridae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans. The base is flat and the upper surface is convex.
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If you are looking for a fern genus, its name is Arachniodes.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species list the following species as being in this genus:- [1]
- Arachnoides placenta (Linnaeus, 1758) Australia to Philippines
- Arachnoides tenuis H. L. Clark, 1938 Western Australia
Arachnoides zelandiae Gray, 1855 New Zealand: Synonym of Fellaster zelandiae (Gray, 1855)[2]
References
- Kroh, Andreas (2018). "Arachnoides Leske, 1778". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- Durham, J. W. (1955). "Classification of clypeasteroid echinoids". California University Publications in Geological Science. 31: 73–198.
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