Tuitui | ʻIna ʻula (Echinometra mathaei)

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Jon Apisa. Tuitui | ʻIna ʻula (Echinometra mathaei). 2025. graphite on paper, 7.75" x 5" (19.685cm x 12.7cm).

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“Tuitui | ʻIna ʻula” (Echinometra mathaei) drawing by Jon Apisa.

This was drawn with graphite on paper, 7.75" x 5" (19.685cm x 12.7cm).

Echinometra mathaei “burrowing urchin” is known as:

• Tuitui in Sāmoa
• ʻIna ʻula in Hawaiʻi
• ʻIna in Tahiti
• Kina in Niuē

Evechinus chloroticus is also:
Kina in Māori

“sea urchin” is:
Tukumisi in Tonga

Echinometra mathaei is also known as:

• burrowing urchin
• rock boring urchin

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Tuitui | ʻIna ʻula (Echinometra mathaei) graphite sketchbook drawing by Jon Apisa 09/11/2025

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