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Family: Echinometridae



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18 species (see list below)
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Colobocentrotus atratus
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Colobocentrotus mertensi
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Colobocentrotus pedifer
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Echinometra insularis
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Poppe, Guido and Philippe

Western Central Atlantic
Max. Length 15 cm WD
Echinometra lucunter(Linnaeus, 1758)

Photo by Poppe, Guido and Philippe
 
Echinometra lucunter
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Bos, Arthur

Indo-Pacific and Western
Max. Length 8 cm WD
Echinometra mathaei(De Blainville, 1825)

Photo by Bos, Arthur
 
Echinometra mathaei
[Rock-boring urchin]
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Echinometra oblonga
[Short-spined black urchin]
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Echinometra vanbrunti
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Echinometra viridis
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Echinostrephus aciculatus
[Needle-spined urchin]
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Echinostrephus molaris
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Evechinus chloroticus
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Choi, Jong-Kwan

Northwest Pacific
Max. Length 7.7 cm WD
Heliocidaris crassispina(Agassiz, 1864)

Photo by Choi, Jong-Kwan
 
Heliocidaris crassispina
[Purple sea urchin]

Stuart-Smith, Rick

Eastern Indian Ocean

Heliocidaris erythrogramma(Valenciennes, 1846)

Photo by Stuart-Smith, Rick
 
Heliocidaris erythrogramma
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Stuart-Smith, Rick

Western Pacific.

Heliocidaris tuberculata(Lamarck, 1816)

Photo by Stuart-Smith, Rick
 
Heliocidaris tuberculata
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Batoy, Corazon B.

Indo-Pacific, except Arab

Heterocentrotus mamillatus(Linnaeus, 1758)

Photo by Batoy, Corazon B.
 
Heterocentrotus mamillatus
[Red pencil urchin]
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Heterocentrotus trigonarius
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Selenechinus armatus
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