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Slate Pencil Urchin

Heterocentrotus mammillatus

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Field Notes

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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Global Coral Reef Monitoring

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PublishedOctober 6, 2011

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