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Echinometra mathaei (Indo-pacific borer urchin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Echinometra mathaei, the burrowing urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinometridae. It occurs in shallow waters in the Indo-Pacific region. The type locality is Mauritius.
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Infraspecies

Echinometra mathaei mathaei
Echinometra mathaei violacea

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Monogamus entopodia[2]
Monogamus interspinea[2]
Robillardia cernica[2]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Fish predators and scavengers of the sea urchin Echinometra mathaei in Kenyan coral-reef marine parks, Timothy R. McClanahan, Environmental Biology of Fishes 43: 187-193, 1995.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0