Stomopneustes

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Long-spined sea urchin
Stomopneustes variolaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Echinodermata
Class:	Echinoidea
Order:	Stomopneustoida
Family:	Stomopneustidae
Genus:	Stomopneustes L. Agassiz, 1841
Species:	S. variolaris
Binomial name
Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816)[1]

Stomopneustes variolaris, the black sea urchin or long-spined sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin, the only one in its genus Stomopneustes and only species still alive in its family Stomopneustidae. It is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, with a patchy distribution.