Fire urchin (Asthenosoma varium) on the seabed. The blue/white tips of this sea urchin's spines are filled with a venom that can cause a very painful

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Fire urchin (Asthenosoma varium) on the seabed. The blue/white tips of this sea urchin's spines are filled with a venom that can cause a very painful and long-lasting sting. It inhabits the tropical Indo-Pacific region and can reach 25 centimetres in diameter. Photographed off Papua New Guinea.

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Keywords: animal, asthenosoma, biological, biology, echinoderm, fauna, fire, guinea, invertebrates, marine, nature, papua, poisonous, sea, single, toxic, tropical, underwater, urchin, varium, wildlife, zoological, zoology