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Long-Spined Urchin

Diadema antillarum

Photo by Liam OBrien
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Incredibly sharp-looking urchin...like a pillow of...moving needles.

Habitat:

Coral reef floor.

Notes:

Evidently a bad wound comes from a puncture by one of these.

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PublishedJuly 12, 2013

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