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Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Purple Sea Urchin

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0705 0118 (2005-07-04)

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date of photo Aug 1995

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Strongylocentrotidae

order Echinoida

class Echinoidea

habitat Low intertidal to subtidal

notes Aboral (top) surface of purple urchin showing anus surrounded by spines, pinchers, and tube feet.

camera Olympus system for macrophotogrophy

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Purple Sea Urchin (photographer)

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