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Dendraster excentricus (Sand dollar)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eccentric sand dollar (Dendraster excentricus), also known as the sea-cake, biscuit-urchin, western sand dollar, or Pacific sand dollar, is a member of the order Clypeasteroida, better known as sand dollars, a species of flattened, burrowing sea urchins found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.
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Infraspecies

Dendraster excentrius excentrius

Ecosystems

Predators

Amphistichus argenteus (Barred surfperch)[1]
Anarrhichthys ocellatus (northern wolffish)[2]
Semicossyphus pulcher (California sheephead)[3]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Trophic Ecology of the Dominant Fishes in Elkhorn Slough, California, 1974-1980, JAMES P. BARRY, MARY M. YOKLAVICH, GREGOR M. CAILLIET, DAVID A. AMBROSE, BROOKE S. ANTRIM, Estuaries Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 115-138, March 1996
♦ 2"Diet and behavioral aspects of the wolf-eel Anarrhichthys ocellatus, on sandy bottom in Monterey Bay, California", Hulberg, L. W., Graber, P., California Fish and Game 1980 Vol. 66 No. 3 pp. 172-177
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0