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Purple Sea Urchin

Sphaerechinus granularis

Habitat:

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

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injica
injica 11 years ago

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/1975...

Noe and Pili
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Noe and Pili

Croatia

Spotted on Jul 20, 2011
Submitted on Jul 20, 2011

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