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Juvenile garibaldi and purple urchins, Coronado Islands. Image ID: 02513 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico	Purple urchins destroying/eating giant kelp holdfast. Image ID: 03404 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest. Image ID: 03111 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA

Purple urchins destroying/eating giant kelp holdfast. Image ID: 03403 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04725 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple sea urchin, spawning. Image ID: 05346 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Purple urchin attacked by starfish, Coronados. Image ID: 01984 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico	Red urchin on rocky California reef. Image ID: 03801 Species: Red urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: California, USA	Red urchin on rocky California reef. Image ID: 03802 Species: Red urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: California, USA

Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04724 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04727 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04730 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA

Small fish trapped in spines of unidentified urchin. Image ID: 07016 Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA	Urchin holes on rocky reef, Albany. Image ID: 01885 Location: James Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Red urchin, strawberry anemones and aggregating anemones on rocky California reef. Image ID: 03798 Species: Red urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Anthopleura elegantissima, Corynactis californica Location: California, USA

Purple urchin and strawberry anemones on rocky California reef. Image ID: 03799 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Corynactis californica Location: California, USA	Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04726 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04728 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA

Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04729 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Purple and red urchins. Image ID: 04731 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Unidentified marine urchins in a rock crevice. Image ID: 09577 Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico

Unidentified marine urchin. Image ID: 09579 Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico	Wolf eel, although similar in shape to eels, is cartilaginous and not a true fish. Its powerful jaws can crush invertibrates, such as spiny sea urchins. It can grow to 6 feet (2m) in length. Image ID: 09835 Species: Wolf eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus	Purple and black sea urchins on a rocky reef. The urchins will clear all kelp off a reef if their population is not held in balance by predictors. Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 10142 Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA