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Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urchin, a highly venomous reef-dwelling echinoderm)
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This is painful to look at. Gives me the trypophobia heebie-jeebies .
Are those suction cups?
Yes, they're altered tube feet, which normally have suction cups at the end. Some have suction, some have little poison trap jaws!
Apparently you can eat their gonads.
The first guy to try must have been really hungry