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title: "Cake Urchin"
description: "Fellaster zelandiae — Outros animais. Fellaster zelandiae, which is also called a cake urchin, or the snapper biscuit, is an echinoderm of the family Arachnoididae, endemic to New Zealand."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/cake-urchin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cake Urchin

> Fellaster zelandiae — Outros animais. Fellaster zelandiae, which is also called a cake urchin, or the snapper biscuit, is an echinoderm of the family Arachnoididae, endemic to New Zealand.

- Scientific name: *Fellaster zelandiae*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 912
- Wikidata: [Q2312876](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2312876)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144098](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144098)

## Names

- en: Cake Urchin

## Countries with the most observations

NZ (884)

## Summary

Fellaster zelandiae, which is also called a cake urchin, or the snapper biscuit, is an echinoderm of the family Arachnoididae, endemic to New Zealand. The maximum width of this type of echinoderm is 100 mm.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellaster_zelandiae

## Photo

![Cake Urchin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cake-urchin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kirsten Barkla · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/401679699

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cake-urchin?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).