Pea urchin
- Description
- Pea urchins are named for their size - the reach just 1cm across. They are common around the UK’s coasts and usually bury themselves in sand and gravel. When live they have a covering of short spines.
- Accession Loan No.
- 24/2022/9
- Collection Class
- Echinoderms
- Common Name
- pea urchin
- Simple Name
- echinoderm
- Full Name
- FIBULARIIDAE: Echinocyamus pusillus: pea urchin
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-); Modern (1900-)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Nichols, Professor David (from the collection of): Galbraith, Mr William [Bill]
- Collection County
- Majorca
- Collection Country
- Spain
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ECHINODERMATA
- Family
- FIBULARIIDAE
- Genus
- Echinocyamus
- Species
- pusillus
