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Toxopneustes pileolus, commonly known as the flower urchin, is a widespread and commonly encountered species of sea urchin from the Indo-West Pacific.It is considered highly dangerous, as it is capable of delivering extremely painful and medically significant stings when touched.
Toxopneustes is a genus of sea urchins from the tropical Indo-Pacific.It contains four species.They are known to possess medically significant venom to humans on their pedicellariae (tiny claw-like structures).
Tom says she commonly sees sea urchin stings in the emergency room from people stepping on the sharp creatures. Tom says that the spines of the sea urchin are fragile and break off easily ...
Asthenosoma varium is a sea urchin (an echinoderm, a member of the phylum that also includes star fish). Growing up to 25 cm (10 in) in diameter, it lives on sand and rubble sea bottoms in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to Australia and Southern Japan. Its venom tipped spines, with distinctive globular swellings below the tip, can inflict a ...
Toxopneustes roseus is similar in appearance to the more widespread flower urchin, Toxopneustes pileolus.It can be distinguished by having a rigid "shell" that is a solid pink, red, or purple in color, in contrast to the variegated coloration of the test of Toxopneustes pileolus.
For marine scientists, it was deja vu: Another die-off swept through the region in the 1980s and slashed sea urchin populations by around 98%. Last year, sea urchins in the Caribbean started ...
The banded sea urchin has a slightly oval test (shell), reaching a diameter of about 5 cm. [1] Like almost all the Diadematidae (but it is in Echinothrix calamaris that it is most obvious) it has two different sets of spines, short and slender closed spines which go from yellow to dark (through brown) in colour and can deliver a nasty sting, and longer and thicker spines that are often banded ...
Expert warns urchins vital to coral reef ecosystems now ‘functionally extinct’ in Red Sea Mysterious plague is wiping out sea urchins across the globe, scientists say Skip to main content