Sand dollars are NOT a type of sea urchin, but they are related to them. They are both echinoderms meaning spiny skin. Sand dollars live on sandy bottoms, and have the shape of an extremely flattened disk. They burrow into the sand and use their tube feet to feed, and spines to crawl along the bottom. They display radial symmetry, and have a hard external test composed of calcium carbonate. In living individuals, it is this test that has a spiny covering.
Sand dollars are a type of sea urchin specially adapted to burrowing in sand. In contrast to most other sea urchins, the bodies of sand dollars are clothed with hard out sides
When a sand dollar is alive however, it is darker in color and covered by tiny, mobile spines. A sand dollar has a characteristic 5-petal design on its back
Many people are familiar with sand dollars that have washed up on the beach, becoming bleached by the sun to a light sandycolor. When a sand dollar is alive however, it is darker in color and covered by tiny, mobile spines.
There white because there dead. they be diffrent color if they were in the water.
it is like green or white or pink that's all a live one could be
The sand dollars have a thick maroon coloured skin.
In the sand
You can not cheat to get sand dollars. You have to work for it, or you have to buy it.
Sand dollars.
Sand dollars breathe through a process known as diffusion, using their tube feet.
sand dollars got there name because they are shaped like a coin and they dig themselves into the sand
Sand dollars don't protect themself, they just sit their........ :)-
what is the sand dollars kingdom
No, sand dollars mainly eat small worms and algae.
Sand Dollars are about the size of a grown human hand when fully grown. They cannot eat humans.
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Sand dollars are actually an entire order of invertebrate animals. Therefor, there are many genera of sand dollars. However, the Common Sand Dollar belongs to the genus Echinarachnius.