Arachnoides Leske 1778 (sand dollar)
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Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Full reference: N. G. Leske. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum, edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum, G. E. Beer, Leipzig 1-278
Parent taxon: Arachnoidinae according to J. W. Durham 1955
See also Durham 1966 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Fellaster, Fossulaster
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal detritivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Arachnoides in the database
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