Foto de stock - While it can be very common further south in the Mediterranean and adjacent Atlantic, the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus is rarely encountered on the much cooler west coast of Scotland where this image was captured It was located at the perifery of an undercut in a shallow rock pool encrusted with pink coralline algae making it quite an awkward subject for a large underwater camera system The comparitively sparse growth of seaweed in the pool seemed to verify its efficiency as an algae feeder To 70 mm W Africa to W Scotland, Mediterranean

Imagen: While it can be very common further south in the Mediterranean and adjacent Atlantic, the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus is rarely encountered on the.

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