Tuxedo urchin
Amazing fact
The tuxedo urchin can stretch its tube feet as far as the width of its shell.
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The tuxedo urchin can stretch its tube feet as far as the width of its shell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tuxedo urchin
- Scientific name
- Mespilia globulus
- Japanese name
- コシダカウニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Echinoidea
- Order
- Camarodonta
- Family
- Temnopleuridae
- Genus
- Mespilia
The parts with spines and tube feet are clearly separated from bare parts with nothing on them.
How the Tuxedo urchin lives
Its eggs contain little yolk and are very transparent.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Indo-West Pacific
Where the Tuxedo urchin has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コシダカウニ
- 简体中文
- 高腰海胆
- 繁體中文
- 高腰海膽
- 한국어
- 고높은분지성게
- Français
- Oursin-smoking
- Português (Brasil)
- Ouriço-do-mar-azul
- Italiano
- Riccio globoso
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — コシダカウニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟大学佐渡自然共生科学センター臨海実験所 — コシダカウニChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — コシダカウニChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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