Fire urchin may refer to one of several
sea urchin
Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin live on the seabed of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of ...
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Astropyga radiata
''Astropyga radiata'', the red urchin, fire urchin, false fire urchin or blue-spotted urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the family Diadematidae. It is a large species with long spines and is found in the tropical Indo-Pacific region. It wa ...
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Asthenosoma ijimai''
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Asthenosoma marisrubri''
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Asthenosoma varium
''Asthenosoma varium'' is a sea urchin (an echinoderm, a member of the phylum that also includes star fish). Growing up to in diameter, it lives on sand and rubble sea bottoms in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to Australia and Southern Japan ...
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Echinoidea
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