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The coast of Southern California is known as a source of high quality uni, with divers picking sea urchin from kelp beds in depths as deep as 24 m/80 ft. [85] As of 2013, the state was limiting the practice to 300 sea urchin diver licenses. [85] Though the edible Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis is found in the North Atlantic, it is not widely ...
Sterechinus neumayeri, the Antarctic sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. It is found living on the seabed in the waters around Antarctica. It has been used as a model organism in the fields of reproductive biology, embryology, ecology, physiology and toxicology. [2]
In Norway, small quantities are fished by hand by freedivers and SCUBA-divers. The fishery is not regulated, and the green sea urchin is considered a pest in the Norwegian waters, eating up the kelp forest. [14] It is not common to find the green sea urchin south of Hitra, and the urchin population is moving northward as water temperatures ...
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Psammechinus microtuberculatus, also known as the green sea urchin, [2] [dubious – discuss] in the family Parechinidae. [1] It was formerly known as Echinus microtuberculatus , and thought to be of the genus Echinus .
Don Levitan, a professor of biological sciences at Florida State University, captures a sea urchin known as Diadema antillarum. Levitan is researching the cause and impact of two massive dieoffs ...
Echinocyamus pusillus, commonly known as the pea urchin or green urchin, is a species of sand dollar, a sea urchin in the family Fibulariidae, native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It buries itself in gravel or coarse sand at depths down to about 1,250 m (4,000 ft).
A deadly epidemic that is spreading through the Red Sea has killed off an entire species of sea urchin in the Gulf of Aqaba, imperilling the region's uniquely resilient coral reefs, an Israeli ...