#5047 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Atlantic Rock-boring Urchin
Echinometra lucunter
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thomas Irvine · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Mike G. Rutherford · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Cristobal Alvaro Minic · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © James St. John · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Luis Mario Reyes Munevar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Roger Birkhead · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Jared Shorma · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Sarita Claudia Frontana Uribe · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Echinometra lucunter , the rock boring urchin , is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinometridae. It is found in very shallow parts of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,316 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Rock-boring Urchin
- scientific name
- Echinometra lucunter
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Camarodonta
- family
- Echinometridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,316
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Echinometridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 194691, Wikidata Q153395, GBIF 2278861, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.