Six-holed Sand Dollar
Leodia sexiesperforata
A smaller, thinner sand dollar with six slots instead of the usual five.
- Typical size
- 1.5–3 in
- How often it turns up
- Uncommon
- Collecting
- Restricted
- Handling
- May be alive
Only collect empty white tests.
How to tell it apart
- Six lunules through the test
- Thin, delicate, often broken
- Clean five-petal pattern despite six holes
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