Burrowing urchin
Echinometra mathaei
Category: Sea Urchins
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Echinoidea
- Order
- Camarodonta
- Family
- Echinometridae
- Genus
- Echinometra
Where to Find
Found in 56 diving areas across 33 countries and 7 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 10 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 10 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 10 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 86 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 59 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 43 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 141 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 26 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 258 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 23 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 23 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 18 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 17 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 16 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 93 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 238 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 131 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 404 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 442 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 68 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 101 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 6 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 9 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 16 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 52 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 77 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 31 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 8 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 28 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 7 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 5 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 4 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 4 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 6 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 54 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 8 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 7 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 6 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 25 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 7 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 9 records