• Source: Asthenosoma

Asthenosoma is a genus of sea urchins in the family Echinothuriidae. Their spines are covered with harmful venom capsules.




Taxonomy


The World Echinoidea Database recognises the following species:

Asthenosoma dilatatum Mortensen, 1934
Asthenosoma ijimai Yoshiwara, 1897
Asthenosoma intermedium H.L. Clark, 1938
Asthenosoma marisrubri Weinberg & de Ridder, 1998 – "Red sea fire urchin"
Asthenosoma periculosum Endean, 1964
Asthenosoma striatissimum Ravn, 1928 †
Asthenosoma varium Grube, 1868 – "fire sea urchin".
"†" means an extinct taxon.













References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Asthenosoma
• Asthenosoma varium
• Asthenosoma marisrubri
• Asthenosoma intermedium
• Asthenosoma dilatatum
• Asthenosoma ijimai
• Asthenosoma periculosum
• Zophodia asthenosoma
• Echinothurioida
• Fire urchin