Brisaster latifrons
Appearance
Brisaster latifrons | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | Echinoidea |
Order: | Spatangoida |
Family: | Schizasteridae |
Genus: | Brisaster |
Species: | B. latifrons
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Binomial name | |
Brisaster latifrons (Agassiz, 1898)
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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]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.