''Cidarina cidaris'', common name Adam's spiny margarite, is a

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Description

The height of the gray to grayish white shell attains 20 mm. (Original description in Latin by Carpenter) "Testa magna, conica, Turcicoidea, tenui ; albido-cinerea, nacreo-argentata ; anfr. nucleosis —? (decollatis), norm, vii, subplanatis, suturis alte insculptis ; superficie spirae tota valide tuberculosa, seriebus tribus, alteris postea intercalantibus; peripheria et basi rotundatis, carinatis; carinis circ. 8, haud acutis, irregularibus, scabris, haud tuberculosis; lacuna umbilicali vix conspicua ; apertura subrotundata ; labro tenuissimo; labio obsoleto ; columella arcuata. "

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from

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References

* Carpenter (1864), Ann. and Mag. N. H. xiv (3d ser.), p. 426.

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cidaris ''Cidaris'' is a genus of pencil sea urchins. Species According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the genus Cidaris contains the following extant species *'' Cidaris abyssicola'' ( Agassiz, 1869) *'' Cidaris annulata'' (Gray, ...

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