Echinocardium australe

Echinocardium australe
Test of Echinocardium australe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Subphylum:	Eleutherozoa
Class:	Echinoidea
Order:	Spatangoida
Family:	Loveniidae
Genus:	Echinocardium
Species:	E. australe
Binomial name
Echinocardium australe Gray, 1855

Echinocardium australe, or the New Zealand heart urchin is a sea urchin of the family Loveniidae, endemic to New Zealand. Length is up to 40 mm.

Underside view of test of Echinocardium australe

References

• Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973
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