Sea potato
- Description
- Sea potatoes are a kind of sea urchin. These have been preserved in alcohol and are part of the Sladen collection. The label in this jar reads: ‘Cumbrae, west coast of Scotland.W.P.S. 1880.’
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/B/48
- Collection Class
- Echinoderms
- Common Name
- sea potato
- Simple Name
- sea-urchin
- Full Name
- ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; Euechinoidea; Spatangoida; Loveniidae; Echinocardium cordatum (Pennant)
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Sladen, Mr Walter Percy (from the collection of)
- Collection Town
- Cumbrae
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: Scotland
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- ECHINODERMATA
- Family
- LOVENIIDAE
- Genus
- Echinocardium cordatum
- Species
- cordatum
