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Green Sea Urchin

Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O. F. Müller 1776)

Breeding

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Echinopluteus larva. January to May

Reference

7. Blue Planet Biomes (May, 2009) http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/andean_condor.htm

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Diet

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Basically herbivorous but also ingests encrusting invertebrates including young Mytilus.

Reference

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Distribution

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Arctic to New Jersey; Alaska to Puget Sound

Reference

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Distribution

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Circumpolar

Reference

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Distribution

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From low intertidal, down to more than 200 m depth, on rocky and stony shores and offshore rough grounds, Scotland, Sshetland, northeast coast of England and northern North Sea

Reference

7. Blue Planet Biomes (May, 2009) http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/andean_condor.htm

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Habitat

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midlittoral, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary

Reference

North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Kennedy, Mary [email]