Dendraster is a genus of echinoderms, the only genus in the family DendrasteridaeDendrasteridae, The World Echinoidea Database. The extant species in this genus are found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.Mooi, R. (1997). Sand Dollars of the genus Dendraster (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida): Phylogenetic systematics, heterochrony, and distribution of extant species. Bulletin of Marine Species 61(2): 343–375. The best-known, most common and widespread species is D. excentricus.
Species Listed alphabetically.Dendraster, Encyclopedia of LifeOrganism NamesUniversal Biological Indexer Dendraster ashleyi (Arnold) † Dendraster casseli Grant & Hertlein, 1938 † Dendraster elsmerensis Durham, 1949 † Dendraster excentricus (Eschscholtz, 1831) Dendraster gibbsii (Remond) † Dendraster laevis H. L. Clark, 1948 Dendraster pacificus Kew, 1920 † Dendraster perrini (Weaver 1908) † Dendraster rugosus H. L. Clark Dendraster terminalis (Grant & Hertlein 1938) Dendraster vizcainoensis Grant and Hertlein, 1938
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