Location: Jurien Bay (WA)

Habitat: Subtidal reef, 5 m

Location: Spring Beach (Mercury Passage, TAS)

Habitat: Subtidal reef, 5 m

Location: Hogan Island (Bass Straight, TAS)

Habitat: Subtidal reef, 5 m

Location: Green Bluff (Mercury Passage, TAS)

Habitat: Subtidal reef, 5 m


Location: Tinderbox (Greater Hobart, TAS)

Habitat: Subtidal reef, 5 m

Location: Terrigal Skillion (Central Coast, NSW)

Habitat: Subtidal reef, 4 m

Heliocidaris erythrogramma
Purple sea urchin

 

Phylum: Echinodermata

Class: Echinoidea

Order: Echinoida

Family: Echinometridae

Genus: Heliocidaris

Species: erythrogramma

 

 

Similar species:
Heliocidaris tuberculata