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Purple Sea Urchin

Sphaerechinus granularis

Photo by Noe and Pili
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Habitat:

It lives in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic Ocean from the British Isles to Azores and Cape Verde

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Sea urchin

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Comments (1)
injica
Nice spotting, I use to sell their skeletons as souvenirs for ice creams when I was 5 :) Still have few left and after over 20 years their are still purple! Fell free to join my mission : http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/19758007

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PublishedJuly 20, 2011

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