Parasaleniidae

Parasaleniidae

[¦par·ə‚sal·ə′nī·ə‚dē]

(invertebrate zoology)

A family of echinacean echinoderms in the order Echinoida composed of oblong forms with trigeminate ambulacral plates.

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