Purple sea urchin By Jayden Rivera Animal Facts

Purple sea urchin By: Jayden Rivera

Animal Facts Diet Description A purple sea urchin is purple. It is 31/4 inches [1 cm] long. It weights 13 pounds it is spiny. It has 5 toothlike plants that point innards-called Aristotle's lantern. . It eats Algea, decaying matter, dead fish, animal matter, sponges and mussel and it is a carnivore. A pic showing your animal. Movement Tiny feet moves Very slowly as it walks and some times it can move with its group so if the get into trouble they will attack together.

Habitat The purple sea urchin lives around the earth mostly Asia in the hard rock floor where mostly.

Life Cycle A baby sea urchin looks small purple it is called larvae the mom takes care of it she can lay 500 million eggs at a time. It takes several months to be born and these tidal zone creatures grow an alien- like adult body within a space ship. The purple sea urchin as a adult it looks pinkish purple it lives more than 50 years they can live in groups and not in groups.

Animal Interactions A sea urchin has spins to protect from predators and it mouth has 5 tooth-like a plant that point innards called Aristotle's lanterns. Crabs are one of the most that attack the sea urchins with there claws to kill them. Pic of enemy, predator, prey, etc. Pic of animal adaptation that allows it to protect itself The shark is also [THE MOST SEA URCHIN EATER] it can protect it self by not trying to bite the spins. An animal from shore or water attacks it is a [predator] if it eats the [purple sea urchin] it will die because of the 5 tooth mouth and spins.

Interesting Facts Hedge hog Sea urchins are called [sea hedgehogs] because they have spins like hedge hogs. A pic to accompany fact #1 A pic to accompany fact #2 INSIDE OUT When a baby sea urchin is born it is inside out. Years old In Canada the purple sea urchin can live more than 100 Years. A pic to accompany fact #3