Sea urchin

Label reads: ‘Echinus microstoma, Wyville Thomson. About 56 miles off DURSEY HEAD, S.W. COAST OF IRELAND, 345 fathoms [631m], 1888. (see “Proceedings of the Royal irish Academy”, 3rd Ser., VolI., No. 5, pp. 687-704). SLADEN COLLECTION’.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
263/1903/A/68
Category
Natural History
Collection Class
Echinoderms
Common Name
sea urchin
Simple Name
sea-urchin
Period Classification
Victorian (1837-1901)

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ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; Euechinoidea; Echinoida; Echinidae; Echinus microstomus Wyville Thomson