#5056 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Five-slotted Sand Dollar
Mellita quinquiesperforata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
📍 Río Grande, PR
📍 Camden County, GA, USA
📍 Océano Atlántico, Carolina, PR, US
📍 CR-399, Gulf Breeze, FL, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Néri Andrades · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bruno Cardoso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © jthomas19 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © neotenia · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Sharon Mooney (see User:Edwardtbabinski) · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Maria Conchita · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Río Grande, PR:© salsmans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Camden County, GA, USA:© Peter Jessen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Océano Atlántico, Carolina, PR, US:© c1946172 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. CR-399, Gulf Breeze, FL, US:© emmybug · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske, 1778) is a tropical species of sand dollar, a flat, round marine animal related to sea urchins, starfish, and other echinoderms.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,611 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nathaniel Gottfried Leske in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Five-slotted Sand Dollar
- scientific name
- Mellita quinquiesperforata
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Echinolampadacea
- family
- Mellitidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,611
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Nathaniel Gottfried Leske
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 118583, Wikidata Q2652400, GBIF 2279048, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.