User:Jasmynsc/Pseudoboletia indiana

Comments by A. Faucci (Apr 8, 2024):

Nice work on finding lots of great information. To polish your draft before copying it over to the main article please work on the following:


 * Remember that this article is part of a digital encyclopedia for a worldwide audience. So, even though we are in Hawaii and the species occurs in Hawaii, write about it from a wider view. For example: In the section on Distribution you write that it is native to Hawaii, specifically Oahu. This is correct from the Bishop's Museum perspective (your source), but it is not its global geographic distribution. Looking at your sources 3 and 4 you can see that the distribution is Indo-Pacific, including Madagascar, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Hawaii and Easter Island.
 * Habitat: the first sentence is habitat, the rest describes the biology of the specie, which I would move to the end of the Description section.
 * Description: Maybe you could add something about its size? (see Hoover), I would delete your second sentence as it is not specific enough for your species and they don't scoop off food so it is not an accurate description.
 * Make sure your sentences are all in perfect English and grammar and are easily understandable for a worldwide audience.
 * Make sure all your scientific species names are in italics, the genus is written out at the beginning of a sentence.
 * Find one more source to get to the required 5. the following would be a good source: https://www.marinelifephotography.com/marine/echinoderms/urchins/pseudoboletia-indiana.htm

Classification
Pseudoboletia indiana, also commonly known as the pebble collector urchin, is a species of echinoderms belonging to the family Taxopneustidae. In Hawaii P. indiana is also known as hawa`e po`ohina.

Distribution
The Pebble Collector Urchin can be found in Indo-Pacific regions, this includes Hawaii, New Zealand, Easter Island, and Madagascar.

Habitat
P. indiana lives on the ocean floor, up to 100 meters in depth. The urchin uses debris from the ocean to cover itself, this includes pebbles, broken pieces or coral, seaweed, etc. The urchin also provides protection to other smaller marine life like the Miner’s Urchin Shrimp, known also as Gnathophylloides mineri. During the night, the urchin will abandon the pebbles and coral it uses as camouflage and will roam around.

Description
Pseudoboletia indiana has a white round body with short spikes, the color of the spikes could be white, pink, purple, or green at the ends. Pseudoboletia indiana are on average around 5 inches in diameter.