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Sea-eggs
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Sea-eggs

Parechinus

Parechinus angulosus, the Cape urchin, is a sea urchin in the family Parechinidae endemic to southern Africa. It is the only species in the genus Parechinus.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Cape sea urchin

speciesParechinus angulosus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 553173.