🦋 Family

Mellitidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Echinodermata › Echinoidea › Echinolampadacea › Mellitidae

Mellita quinquiesperforata, the five-holed keyhole urchin, is a tropical Atlantic sand dollar species of echinoderm.

Encope emarginata is a species of echinoid found in shallow Atlantic and Caribbean coastal sandy-muddy habitats from Belize to Argentina.

Leodia sexiesperforata, the six-slotted sand dollar from the western Atlantic, lives on sandy seabeds and feeds on organic particles.

Related Families

Astriclypeidae 1 species Dendrasteridae 1 species Echinarachniidae 1 species Fibulariidae 1 species

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