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Family Toxopneustidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Toxopneustes pileolus

Yawatano, Izu, Japan

Yawatano, Izu, Japan

FLOWER URCHIN

Locally common on rubble and sand at scuba depths.  Cup-like pedicellariae deliver a potentially fatal sting.  Attains 5 inches.  Indo-West Pacific excluding Hawaii.