Different types of colorful sea urchins and their spines: purple club-spined or artichoke urchin, round urchin, etc.


Different types of colorful sea urchins and their spines. The very rare purple club-spined or artichoke urchin (Echinus atratus), round urchin (Echinus globiformis), Cidarites imperialis, Scutella radiata, Scutella quinquefora. Handcolored engraving by Dujardin from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (Universal Dictionary of Natural History) 1849.


Size: 3343px × 5486px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1849, academics, alcide., animals, appeal, artists, baron, charles, colorful, coral, crab, creature, delarue, designed, dictionnaire, drawn, engraving, era, general, handcolored, histoire, history, illustrated, including, lavishly, lobster, major, marine, maubert, natural, naturelle, orbigny, oudart, oyster, plants, plates, prêtre, public., sea, seahorse, sealife, shell, shellfish, survey, traviè, universel, urchin, vaillant, werner, work