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  4. Sea Urchins and Sea Cucumbers

subphylum

Sea Urchins and Sea Cucumbers

Echinozoa

Includes
96 native 43 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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  • Sea Cucumbers 56 native
  • Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins 40 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native sea urchins and sea cucumbers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Pacific Purple Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus 20,153 observations
  • Eccentric Sand Dollar Dendraster excentricus 11,832 observations
  • Orange Sea Cucumber Cucumaria miniata 10,148 observations
  • Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin Echinometra mathaei 6,637 observations
  • Red Sea Urchin Mesocentrotus franciscanus 5,677 observations
  • Lollyfish Sea Cucumber Holothuria atra 4,768 observations
  • Collector Urchin Tripneustes gratilla 3,914 observations
  • Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum 3,304 observations
  • Pacific White-spotted Sea Cucumber Actinopyga varians 2,849 observations
  • Red Pencil Urchin Heterocentrotus mamillatus 2,767 observations
  • Shingle Urchin Colobocentrotus atratus 2,339 observations
  • Stiff-footed Sea Cucumber Eupentacta quinquesemita 2,206 observations
  • Warty Sea Cucumber Apostichopus parvimensis 1,260 observations
  • Dwarf Sea Cucumber Lissothuria nutriens 1,147 observations
  • Blue-black Urchin Echinothrix diadema 1,003 observations
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