---
title: "Eccentric Sand Dollar"
description: "Dendraster excentricus — Outros animais. Dendraster excentricus, also known as the eccentric sand dollar, sea-cake, biscuit-urchin, western sand dollar, or Pacific sand dollar, is a species of echinoderm in the family Dendrasteridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/eccentric-sand-dollar
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Eccentric Sand Dollar

> Dendraster excentricus — Outros animais. Dendraster excentricus, also known as the eccentric sand dollar, sea-cake, biscuit-urchin, western sand dollar, or Pacific sand dollar, is a species of echinoderm in the family Dendrasteridae.

- Scientific name: *Dendraster excentricus*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 12043
- Wikidata: [Q2212339](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2212339)
- iNaturalist taxon: [117696](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/117696)

## Names

- en: Eccentric Sand Dollar
- es: Galleta de mar excéntrica

## Countries with the most observations

US (9592), CA (1532), MX (264)

## Summary

Dendraster excentricus, also known as the eccentric sand dollar, sea-cake, biscuit-urchin, western sand dollar, or Pacific sand dollar, is a species of echinoderm in the family Dendrasteridae. It is a flattened, burrowing sea urchin found in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California.

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

## Photo

![Eccentric Sand Dollar](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eccentric-sand-dollar/medium.jpg)

Photo: jbyggdin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/276771124

## Machine access

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