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Rock-boring Urchins
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Rock-boring Urchins

Echinometra

Echinometra is a genus of sea urchins in the family Echinometridae.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin

speciesEchinometra mathaei

Atlantic Rock-boring Urchin

speciesEchinometra lucunter

Central American Rock-boring Urchin

speciesEchinometra vanbrunti

Reef Urchin

speciesEchinometra viridis

Oblong Sea Urchin

speciesEchinometra oblonga

Echinometra insularis

speciesEchinometra insularis

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Rock-boring Urchins in Books on Marine Fishes

Books on Marine Fishes

Guillaume Rondelet · 1554 · p.602

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 128201.