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Class: Echinoidea
Order: Camarodonta
Family: Echinometridae

Genus: Heliocidaris

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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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