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Rock-Boring Urchin (Echinometra mathaei)
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Echinometra mathaei

(Blainville, 1825)

Rock-Boring Urchin

Also known as: Burrowing Urchin, Indo-Pacific Rock-Boring Urchin, Oval Urchin

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Taxonomy
Class

Echinoidea

Order

Camarodonta

Family

Echinometridae

Where to find it

common

PalauTanzania
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