Tripneustes

Tripneustes is a genus of sea urchins belonging to the family Toxopneustidae.

==Species== The genus contains four extant species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Tripneustes depressus Agassiz, 1863|| eastern Pacific Ocean, occurring in Mexico, on the western coast of Central America, in Panama, in Ecuador and around the Galápagos Islands |- |120px ||Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758)||Indo-Pacific, Hawaii, the Red Sea, and The Bahamas. |- | ||Tripneustes kermadecensis Bronstein, Kroh, Tautscher, Liggins & Haring, 2017||southern Pacific Ocean, off the Kermadec Islands |- |120px ||Tripneustes ventricosus (Lamarck, 1816)||western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico |- |}