
Heliocidaris is a genus of sea urchins, part of the family Echinometridae.
Western Pacific purple sea urchin
GENUS
via GBIF
Heliocidaris is a genus of sea urchins, part of the family Echinometridae.
== Characteristics == This genus is typical of west Pacific Ocean (Japan to New Zealand), in particular in Australia. Some species are edible.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).