Toxopneustes

<i>Toxopneustes</i>

Toxopneustes

Genus of sea urchins

Toxopneustes is a genus of sea urchins from the tropical Indo-Pacific. It contains four species. They are known to possess medically significant venom to humans on their pedicellariae (tiny claw-like structures). They are sometimes collectively known as flower urchins, after the most widespread and most commonly encountered species in the genus, the flower urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus).

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Species

Species included in the genus are the following:[1][2][3][4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Andreas Kroh (2014). Kroh A, Mooi R (eds.). "Toxopneustes pileolus (Lamarck, 1816)". World Echinoidea Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  2. [2]
    Wolfgang Bücherl & Eleanor E. Buckley (2013). Venomous Animals and Their Venoms: Venomous Invertebrates. Elsevier. pp. 427, 431. ISBN 9781483262895.
  3. [3]
    Alexander Agassiz & Hubert Lyman Clark (1912). "Hawaiian and Other Pacific Echini: The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentrotidae, and Echinometridae". Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 34 (4): 207–383.
  4. [4]
    Hubert Lyman Clark (1925). A Catalogue of the Recent Sea-Urchins (Echinoidea) in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Oxford University Press. pp. 122–123.


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