Echinometra mathaei (Blainville, 1825)
80mm

This common shallow water urchin often lives in holes it bores into the reef.

Specimens from the Marshalls occasionally, but rarely, have white tips to the spines, like the specimen below photographed near Anilao in the Philippines.

Created 15 June 2018

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