Abu Galum, Aldabra, Chagos, Eastern Africa & Madagascar, Gulf of Mexico, Kenya, Madagascar, Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, Red Sea, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa (country), Tanzania, West Indian Ocean

Colour in life: variable, spine colour purple/green spines with purple tips and grey-green base or jungle green spines with purple tips (Humphreys, 1981). Has commensal shrimp Athanas areteformi COUTIERE (Crustacea : Alpheidae) which also occurs on Toxopneustes pileolus and Tripneustes gratilla and parasitic molluscs (Humphreys, 1981). Habitat: rocks (Tortonese, 1951). Also distributed in Onotoa Atoll, Marshall Islands, Tuamotus, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, Solomon Islands, Seleo Island, Netherlands New Guinea, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); Hasikaya Island (Kuria Muria Islands) (Herring, 1972); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); Lakshadweep (India) in Sastry (1991); India (Lakshadweep, Tamilnadu, Andaman and Nicobar Is.)(Sastry, 1996).  General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-Pacific, depth range 0-139 m. (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore (Rowe & Gates, 1995).

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Hawaii Island, Puako Bay, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Hawaii Island, Puako Bay, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Hawaii Island, Puako Bay, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Alcohol (Ethanol)
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Hawaii Island, Puako Bay, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Depth (m): 22 to 22
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Oahu Island, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Necker Island, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Depth (m): 29 to 313
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Dry
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Maui Island, Napili Harbor, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Syntype for Echinometra picta Agassiz & Clark, 1907
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Preparation: Alcohol (Ethanol)
Collector(s): United States Fish Commission
Year Collected: 1902
Locality: Niihau Island, Kamalina Bay, Hawaii, United States, North Pacific Ocean
Vessel: Albatross R/V

Depth range based on 1 specimen in 1 taxon.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 22 - 22
 
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Depth range based on 1000 specimens in 3 taxa.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 871 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 139
  Temperature range (°C): 22.924 - 28.770
  Nitrate (umol/L): 0.033 - 1.569
  Salinity (PPS): 33.667 - 37.646
  Oxygen (ml/l): 4.163 - 4.971
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.063 - 0.299
  Silicate (umol/l): 0.983 - 4.540

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 0 - 139

Temperature range (°C): 22.924 - 28.770

Nitrate (umol/L): 0.033 - 1.569

Salinity (PPS): 33.667 - 37.646

Oxygen (ml/l): 4.163 - 4.971

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.063 - 0.299

Silicate (umol/l): 0.983 - 4.540
 
Note: this information has not been validated. Check this *note*. Your feedback is most welcome.

Genomic DNA is available from 4 specimens with morphological vouchers housed at Florida Museum of Natural History

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species. 

 
There are 6 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.  Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.  See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
 

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 6
Species: 41
Species With Barcodes: 1