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Banded sea urchin

Echinothrix calamaris
Fa mo malBetg tutgarQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.
Ritschs, stailas e verms Spinas tissientadas
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The banded sea urchin is a spiny sea animal that lives on tropical reefs and in lagoons across the Indo-Pacific. It is active at night and hides in cracks or under rocks during the day. Its thin spines can deliver a sting, although the sting is not dangerous.1

Viva en
Tropical Indo-Pacific, from eastern Africa to French Polynesia, including Hawaii and the Red Sea1
Ocean Indic, Ocean Pacific, Mar Cotschen, Mar da Coral, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal
Pagina iniziala
It lives in lagoons, the outer slopes of reefs and channels, from the surface down to 70 metres. In the daytime it hides in crevices or under rocks.1
Lunghezza
10 cm fin 15 cm (3,9 in fin 5,9 in)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 0,02 km/h (0,01 mph)
Nudar, stima approximativa
Propi!Foto da Banded sea urchin
Banded sea urchin. Foto: http://www.colours.dk/. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • It has a slightly oval shell (test) about 5 cm across.1
  • It has two kinds of spines: short, slender spines that run from yellow to dark, and longer, thicker spines that are often banded with light and dark colour.1
  • The longer spines reach 10 to 15 cm and can be blunt and hollow.1
  • Five bare zones in a star pattern show on the middle of the shell, and these can look blue.1

Savens confundì cun: Dark forms can look like Diadema setosum or Diadema savignyi. Diadema savignyi is bigger, more uniformly black, and has five white spots on top of its shell and an orange ring around its anus. The most common mix-up is Echinothrix diadema, which can have banded spines when young. Echinothrix diadema has a very small, all-black anal papilla and blue-sheened spines, and its spines do not crush easily, unlike the spines of the banded sea urchin.1

Forza dal tissi

Spinas tissientadas

Spinas pizzadas portan il tissi. Sch'ins passa sin el u al piglia, fa quai mal.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The thinner, short spines are venomous, meaning they deliver venom through a sting. The sting is nasty, but the venom is not dangerous.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The thinner spines are venomous but not dangerous.1

Sche sias spinas ta furan

  • Metta la plaja en aua chauda, uschè chauda sco che la persuna po supportar senza sa brischar, e tschertga agid medicinal per allontanar las spinas. N'emprova betg da las chavar ora sez.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sche sias spinas ta furan: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Banded sea urchin circa 15 cm lung (5,9 in)In smartphone circa 15 cm (5,9 in)Ina banana circa 18 cm (7,1 in)
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Quant grond è Banded sea urchin cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

Its anal papilla is large and whitish with black and white dots, and a ring of visual receptors around it gives it basic vision.1

2

Young cardinal fish from the family Apogonidae often hide among the spines for protection.1

3

In Hawaii, this sea urchin often carries a symbiotic crab, Echinoecus pentagonus, that lives with it.1

4

It is active at night and spends the day hidden in crevices or under rocks.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Echinothrix calamaris
Gruppa
Ritschs, stailas e verms
Famiglia
Diadematidae2
Urden
Diadematoida
Continents
Ocean Indic, Ocean Pacific, Mar Cotschen, Mar da Coral, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Ils oceans
Privel per umans
2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Echinothrix calamaris (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Echinothrix calamaris (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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