Showing posts with label green sea urchin shell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green sea urchin shell. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Green Sea Urchin (Lytechinus semituberdulatus), Galapagos Islands, Ecuador



Here's a cool shell found in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. It's the shell of an endemic, or locally found, green sea urchin ( Lytechinus semituberculatus ), I think, because of the green coloring. The coloring could be caused by other reasons, I guess. We saw the living green sea urchins below water, too. 

Chitika