Sea Urchin

The sea urchin is an interesting animal with many characteristics including, spiny like exoskeleton and tubed like feet and many more. There are 3 adaptations to this animal, there are structural, behavioral, and functional. The adaptations are, able to grow back limbs from further back injuries, they use their spines to keep them self-safe from predators, and it uses it’s tubed like feet to move around.  Next we talk about the dkpcofgs.

Domain: Eukarya

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Echinodermata

Class: echinodea

Order: echinoida

Family: strongy bcentrotidae

Genus: strongy lecentroutus

Species: purpuratus

A fun fact about the sea urchin is that its favorite food is algae!

The predators for this animal are, fish, birds, crabs, and sea otter. The prey are, algae, fish, and barnacles. The sea urchin is also heterotrophic and it is exothermic!