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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Echinoderms
  4. Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
  5. Camarodonta
  6. Odontophora
  7. Echinometridae

family

Echinometridae

Echinometridae

Includes
5 native 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Rock-boring Urchins 3 native
  • Heterocentrotus 1 native
  • Colobocentrotus 1 native
  • Evechinus
  • Echinostrephus
  • Heliocidaris

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native Echinometridae All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin Echinometra mathaei 6,637 observations
  • Red Pencil Urchin Heterocentrotus mamillatus 2,767 observations
  • Shingle Urchin Colobocentrotus atratus 2,339 observations

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