Echinometra

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Echinometra
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Echinometra mathaei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea
Order: Camarodonta
Family: Echinometridae
Genus: Echinometra
Gray, 1825
Species

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

Species

The following species are listed in the World Echinoidea Database: [1]

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Echinometra insularis.jpg Echinometra insularis H.L. Clark, 1912Easter Island.
Echinometra lucunter.jpg Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Seaurchin.jpg Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825)Indo-Pacific region
E-oblonga One`ula BP.jpg Echinometra oblonga (Blainville, 1825)tropical Indo-Pacific and Southern Africa
California Purple Sea Urchin.jpg Echinometra vanbrunti A. Agassiz, 1863Pacific (Mexico)
Echinometra viridis (Reef Urchin).jpg Echinometra viridis A. Agassiz, 1863western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

References

  1. Kroh, Andreas (2010). Kroh A, Mooi R (eds.). "Echinometra Gray, 1825". World Echinoidea Database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2012-09-18.