North Island Explorer: Guide to North Vancouver Island

 

 

 

 

 

Green Sea Urchin: Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

 

Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis)

Other names: Green Urchin.

 

Photo 1: Green Sea Urchin on seaweed.

Green Sea Urchins are grazers using their five teeth on their underside to eat algae. (Taken at Shelter Point, Campbell River)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Sea urchin grazing on seaweed.