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  2. ›Echinoderms
  3. ›sea urchins and sea cucumbers
  4. ›Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
  5. ›sea urchins
  6. ›Carinacea
  7. ›Echinacea
  8. ›Camarodonta
  9. ›Echinidea
  10. ›Odontophora
  11. ›Toxopneustids
Toxopneustes
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Toxopneustes

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). They are sometimes collectively known as flower urchins, after the most widespread and most commonly encountered species in the genus, the flower urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus). Species included in the genus are the following:

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Flower Urchin

speciesToxopneustes pileolus

Rose Flower Urchin

speciesToxopneustes roseus

Toxopneustes maculatus

speciesToxopneustes maculatus

Toxopneustes elegans

speciesToxopneustes elegans

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 195832.