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Toxopneustidae

10 species · Animals

Animalia › Echinodermata › Echinoidea › Camarodonta › Toxopneustidae

Tripneustes ventricosus, the West Indian sea egg, is a shallow-water sea urchin with a historically important edible fishery in the West Indies.

Tripneustes depressus is a large eastern Pacific sea urchin that may be the same species as other Tripneustes congeners.

Tripneustes gratilla, the collector urchin, is a common Indo-Pacific sea urchin that grazes heavily on seagrass.

Lytechinus semituberculatus, the green sea urchin, is a green-colored sea urchin found off the Galapagos Islands with unknown conservation status.

Lytechinus variegatus, the green sea urchin, is a western Atlantic tropical sea urchin identifiable by its white pedicellaria.

Lytechinus pictus is a Pacific sea urchin that lives in kelp bed habitats and feeds on young kelp.

Sphaerechinus granularis is a large edible Atlantic-Mediterranean sea urchin with two distinct color forms.

Pseudoboletia indiana, the pebble collector urchin, is a spiky marine urchin that covers itself with ocean debris.

Toxopneustes roseus is an East Pacific collector urchin that resembles the flower urchin, feeds mostly on rhodoliths, and covers itself in debris.

Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urchin) is a large venomous Indo-West Pacific tropical sea urchin.

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