Photos from Ruxton's aptly-named Sand Dollar Bay ²

Eccentric sand dollar (Dendraster excentricus), also known as the sea-cake, biscuit-urchin, western sand dollar, or Pacific sand dollar, is a member of the order Clypeasteroida, better known as sand dollars, a species of flattened, burrowing sea urchins found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.

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1. (c) John D Reynolds, all rights reserved, uploaded by John D Reynolds
2. Adapted by John D Reynolds from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendraster_excentricus

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