Red Sea fire urchin
The Red Sea fire urchin is a spiny sea creature that lives on the seabed. It is a fairly common sea urchin across much of the Indo-Pacific. Its spines can cause extreme pain, so it is important to know it when you are in the water.1

Co renconuscher el
- Its spines regularly cover the whole aboral (back) side of its body.1
- Its body plates are articulated, which makes the test (shell) quite flexible.1
- It is most active at night.1
Savens confundì cun: It was once considered a colour variant of Asthenosoma varium. In the Red Sea fire urchin, the spines cover the whole back side evenly. In A. varium, the spines are grouped in rectangular patches separated by bare areas.1
Forza dal tissi
Spinas pizzadas portan il tissi. Sch'ins passa sin el u al piglia, fa quai mal.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Its spines inflict extreme pain on anyone who is pricked by them. The pain is the main effect described for this urchin.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: GravSche sias spinas ta furan, va tar in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.Its spines cause extreme pain, which is the main danger to people who touch it or come into contact with its spines.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?
uschè lung sco 8 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auter
pli plaun ch'ina lindorna da curtinQuant grond è Red Sea fire urchin cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
It often shelters commensal shrimps, including Allopontonia iaini and Periclimenes colemani, and the parasitic gastropod Leutzenia asthenosomae.1
Until 1998 it was considered a colour variant of Asthenosoma varium.1
Sea urchins are close relatives of starfish, crinoids, brittle stars and sea cucumbers. Together these are called echinoderms, meaning 'spiny skins'.1
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Asthenosoma marisrubri (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Asthenosoma marisrubri (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- 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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Spinas tissientadas
