Order

Common name: Reef Urchins

Scientific name: Camarodonta

Camarodonta is an order of sea urchins commonly found in reef environments. Members of this order, such as the popular tuxedo urchin, are known for their herbivorous diet, feeding on algae and helping to control algae growth in aquariums. They are characterized by their robust, often colorful spines and a globular shape. Hobbyists appreciate them for their utility in maintaining clean rocks and glass, but care should be taken to ensure they have enough food and are not damaging more delicate corals.

  1. Hawaiian Pink Rock Boring Urchin
    Common name: rock-boring urchin
    Scientific name: Echinometra lucunter
  2. Rock Boring Urchin (Echinometra mathaei) underwater hidden in a hole in coral, lagoon of Bora Bora, Pacific ocean, French Polynesia
    Common name: Rock Boring Urchin
    Scientific name: Echinometra mathaei
  3. Caribbean Reef Urchin (Echinometra viridis)
    Common name: Reef Urchin
    Scientific name: Echinometra viridis
  4. Needle-Spined Urchin on Coral Reef
    Common name: Urchin Spine Snail
    Scientific name: Echinostrephus aciculatus
  5. Common name: Burrowing fine spine urchin
    Scientific name: Echinostrephus molaris
  6. Single European Edible Sea Urchin - latin Echinus esculentus - inhabiting seashore coastal waters of western Europe, in an zoological garden marine aquarium
    Common name: common sea urchin
    Scientific name: Echinus esculentus
  7. White Urchin
    Common name: Pineapple Sea Urchin
    Scientific name: Echinus melo
  8. oursin crayon , Heterocentrotus mamillatus
    Common name: slate pencil urchin
    Scientific name: Heterocentrotus mamillatus
  9. Variegated sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus
    Common name: variegated urchin
    Scientific name: Lytechinus variegatus
  10. Red Sea Urchins
    Common name: Red Sea Urchin
    Scientific name: Mesocentrotus franciscanus
  11. Blue Tuxedo Urchin
(Mespilia globulus)
    Common name: blue tuxedo urchin
    Scientific name: Mespilia globulus
  12. Common name: Bald-patch urchin
    Scientific name: Microcyphus rousseaui
  13. Group of sea urchins underwater ( purple sea urchin  Paracentrotus lividus), eastern Atlantic Ocean, Spain, Galicia
    Common name: Purple sea urchin
    Scientific name: Paracentrotus lividus
  14. Underwater marine life, Psammechinus microtuberculatus commonly called green sea urchin, Mediterranean Sea
    Common name: Green Sea Urchin
    Scientific name: Psammechinus microtuberculatus
  15. Common name: Indiana Urchin
    Scientific name: Pseudoboletia indiana
  16. stained collector urchin (Pseudoboletia maculata) from Cebu, Philippines isolated on white background
    Common name: Spotted Sea Urchin
    Scientific name: Pseudoboletia maculata
  17. Common name: Dussumier's Dartfish
    Scientific name: Salmaciella dussumieri
  18. Common name: Salmacis Belli
    Scientific name: Salmacis belli
  19. shrimp inside the urchin
    Common name: Urchin Banded Shrimp
    Scientific name: Salmacis sphaeroides
  20. Underwater Mediterranean purple sea urchin - Sphaerechinus granularis
    Common name: violet sea urchin
    Scientific name: Sphaerechinus granularis
  21. OURSIN VIOLET strongylocentrotus purpuratus
    Common name: Purple sea urchin
    Scientific name: Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
  22. Flower Urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus)
    Common name: Flower Urchin
    Scientific name: Toxopneustes pileolus
  23. Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
    Common name: Collector Urchin
    Scientific name: Tripneustes gratilla
  24. White Sea Urchin Tripneustes ventricosus in a coral reef
    Common name: sea egg
    Scientific name: Tripneustes ventricosus