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Slate Pencil Urchin

Heterocentrotus mammillatus

Description:

Overall diameter of 10 inches

Habitat:

Locally abundant in clear shallow water. Rare outside the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii and the Indo-Pacific.

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1 Comment

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

sea urchin of some sort

KathleenMcEachern
Spotted by
KathleenMcEachern

Hawaiʻi, USA

Spotted on Mar 20, 2008
Submitted on Oct 6, 2011

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