The Extraordinary Journey Of A Green Sea Urchin To Find Its Mate

A recent analysis shows that the sea urchin skeletogenic grn is similar between species as distant as sea urchins and sea stars (gao and davidson, 2008). In modern sea urchins, the. Several species of sea urchin share the name green sea urchin: Lytechinus variegatus, also known as the variegated sea urchin; Psammechinus microtuberculatus, occurs in the atlantic.

It is often found on or under kelp and on seagrass. Lytechinus variegatus, commonly called the green sea urchin or the variegated sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin that can be found in the warm waters of the western atlantic ocean and.