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Aspidodiadema arcitum
Aspidodiadema arcitum seen off Hawaii by NOAA Okeanos Explorer mission
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Echinoidea
Order:	Aspidodiadematoida
Family:	Aspidodiadematidae
Genus:	Aspidodiadema
Species:	A. arcitum
Binomial name
Aspidodiadema arcitum (O. Mortensen, 1939)

Aspidodiadema arcitum is a species of sea urchin of the family Aspidodiadematidae. Their armour is covered with spines. It is placed in the genus Aspidodiadema and lives in the sea. Aspidodiadema arcitum was first scientifically described in 1939 by Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen, a Danish scientist.

References

1. Kroh, A. (2010). Aspidodiadema arcitum (Mortensen, 1939). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2010) World Echinoidea Database. at the World Register of Marine Species.
2. Ziegler, Alexander; Stock, Stuart R.; Menze, Björn H.; Smith, Andrew B. (2012). "Macro- and microstructural diversity of sea urchin teeth revealed by large-scale mircro-computed tomography survey". In Stock, Stuart R (ed.). Developments in X-Ray Tomography VIII. Vol. 8506. pp. 85061G. doi:10.1117/12.930832. S2CID 16510346.

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