37+ Pacific Purple Sea Urchin Habitat Pics. They tend to live in kelp forests where they ingest their main source of food, kelp. About 950 species live on the seabed.
A purple sea urchin uses its teeth and spines to dig holes in stones, which become the sea urchin's hideaway. Sea urchins are also called sea hedgehogs, sand dollars and sea biscuits. Red and purple are found from baja, california to alaska, and greens are taken from washington to alaska.
These sea urchins are very important to their habitat because they help maintain the amount of algae in the.
This video is about how to catch and clean pacific purple sea urchin uni. They are mainly found along the coast line of alaska all the way down the pacific coast to mexico. The stinging sea flower urchin, toxopneustes pileolus may look pretty but it is not something to be touched. The purple sea urchin thrives amid strong wave action and areas with churning aerated water.