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correct Hawaiian name is 'ina kea.
Invasive. Intentional introduction in late 1950s from Tahiti.
Echinometra mathaei or rock-boring urchin. This species non-venomous and not hazardous to touch gently. About the size of a golf ball, as its name suggests, it bores into reef and rock forming visible grooves.
