Theme for Nov 15-21: Needles and pins

[justleesa]

Urchins, we see them everywhere, all different kinds. Share your most interesting urchin pics. Maybe even urchin stories, urchin tatoos....YYYYouch!! lol

Found this Rock Boring Urchin inside a dead clam shell. Looks like it's found a new home.

This is a banded urchin and if you get close to one of these let it be known that it is said to burn like fire.....and BTW the thing in the middle is not it's eye:

Last but not least, urchins are also good for other things. Like - Homes

A Hawaiian Whitespotted Toby checking out a broken collector urchin for size.

 

[louisianadiver]

Here's an itchy, prickly combination--a feathery hydroid and an urchin on an oil rig.

Clay

 

[justleesa]

Hey that looks kinda like a pencil urchin....any relation? Or it is just really close up and the spines look so think?

 

[maractwin]

Here's a school of juvenile wrasses and several shrimp living amongst the spines of a longspine anemone. Shot in Cozumel last week.

-Mark

 

[louisianadiver]

Hey that looks kinda like a pencil urchin....any relation? Or it is just really close up and the spines look so think?

I think it's a rock-boring urchin. The spines are short but sharp. I asked another forum for ID suggestions, and that was the general consensus. Otherwise, beats me. -Clay

 

[justleesa]

Here's a school of juvenile wrasses and several shrimp living amongst the spines of a longspine anemone. Shot in Cozumel last week.

-Mark

WOW! what long spines! Bet they leave nasty marks if the surge should get you...

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Not a great pic... Low vis, lots of current, lots of particle in the water, but atleast I can participate. I don't have many urchin pics, I had to wade through my picture hoard just to find this one.

 

[justleesa]

SuPrBuGmAn, do you know what kind of Urchin it is?


Not to forget :

 

[StevenB]

Whoa! Leesa, Those little nightmares are still around. I hoped they would go back into hiding after Halloween. ;-)

 

[StevenB]

I don't know what these things are, but they kind of look like urchins? Leesa, these were in a Maui tidepool, maybe you know what they are.