Sand dollars (Dendraster excentricus)
Sand dollars live below the average low water mark on top of or just beneath sandy or muddy surfaces. Spines on the somewhat flattened underside of the animal allow them to burrow or to slowly creep through the sand. Photographed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
subtidal community marine invertebrates sdollars benthic species spines exoskeleton sandAuthor(s) | Ben Fertig |
Author Company | Integration and Application Network |
Date Created | 2011-01-26 |
Album | Fauna > Echinoderms |
Type | Photo |
Dimensions | 1220 x 1036 |
Filesize | 1.8 MB |
Number of Downloads | 254 |
Filetype(s) | JPG |
License | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
Required Attribution | Ben Fertig, Integration and Application Network (ian.umces.edu/media-library) |