This species is recorded from the eastern Pacific off Panama (see Maluf, 1988). Lessios (2005) reports that it has a depth range of 20 to 1900 m.
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513143Opissaster latifrons (A. Agassiz, 1898) (transferred to Brisaster)
Schizaster (Brisaster) latifrons A. Agassiz, 1898 (transferred to Brisaster)
Schizaster latifrons A. Agassiz, 1898 (transferred to Brisaster)
"Brisaster latifrons is an irregular sea urchin that is roughly egg-shaped and bilaterally symmertrical, with a mouth at one end rather than on the underside. It grows up to 73 mm long. Among the spines are five ambulacra (petals) on the dorsal surface; the three anterior ambulacra are two to three times longer than the two posterior ambulacra. The spines covering the test are flat and curved at the ends." (Lambert, Austin 2007)
"From the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, to southern California and the Gulf of California. " (Lambert, Austin 2007)
"Heart Urchins are deposit feeders, ingesting mud as they move through it. They live below the mud surface but maintain a chimney to the surface with large modified tube feet to obtain oxygen." (Lambert, Austin 2007)
Brisaster latifrons is a species of sea urchins of the family Schizasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. Brisaster latifrons was first scientifically described in 1898 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.[1]
They serve as hosts for the commensal epibiont Waldo arthuri, a galeommatid clam.[2]
Brisaster latifrons is a species of sea urchins of the family Schizasteridae. Their armour is covered with spines. Brisaster latifrons was first scientifically described in 1898 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.
They serve as hosts for the commensal epibiont Waldo arthuri, a galeommatid clam.
