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What do sea urchins eat?

Question 1: What do sea urchins eat? Sea urchins are invertebrates of which there are eight or nine hundred species. In the distant past (Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras), they had many species.

There are as many as 5,000 species of fossilized sea urchins. Sea urchins have a delicate hard shell covered with many thorn-like things called spines. These spines are movable, and their function is to keep the shell clean, move, and dig sand and mud. But sea urchins cannot move themselves very quickly. In addition to spines, sea urchins also have some tube feet extending from the holes in the shell. These tube feet have different functions, such as taking in food and sensing external conditions. The shell of a sea urchin is actually formed by 3,000 small bone plates. Different types of sea urchins vary greatly in size, with the smallest being only 5 mm and the largest being 30 cm. Sea urchins have spherical, heart-shaped, and pancake-shaped shapes. They live in oceans around the world, with the most species in the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean. They can be found from shallow waters to 7,000 meters deep water. They all live on the bottom of the water or in mud and sand. Different sea urchins eat different things. Some eat seaweed and other small animals, while others eat dirt deposited on the seabed. This mainly depends on the environment they are in, because it is not easy for them to move. Sea urchins are divided into male and female, but it is difficult to tell from their appearance. Their reproductive process is very interesting. They like to gather together. When one sea urchin lays eggs or releases pus, other sea urchins will be infected and release eggs or pus together.

Question 2: What do sea urchins eat? Most of the food of sea otters is shellfish, abalone, sea urchins, crabs, etc. that grow on the seabed. Sometimes they also eat some seaweed and fish. Their favorite food is sea urchins, but the shells of sea urchins are very hard and cannot be bitten open by teeth. Sea otters have come up with a very clever way: pick up sea urchins underwater and clamp them in the loose skin under their forelimbs, then quickly float to the surface of the water, swim on their backs with their four legs facing upwards, put a fist-sized stone picked up from the seabed on their chest as anvil, and use their forelimbs to clamp the sea urchins and hit the stones. Once the shell is broken, the sea otters will immediately suck out the meat inside. After eating, they will save the stones and use them repeatedly. In this respect, sea otters are better than apes.

Question 3: What do sea urchins eat? Small jellyfish eat plankton, medium and large ones eat small fish, shrimp, etc. Octopuses eat shellfish, crabs and fish, etc. Sea urchins eat seaweed. Sea crabs eat dead animals or humus, and also eat small fish and shrimp, etc.

Question 4: Who ate sea urchin first? 1. Eat sea urchin roe 2. The most common way to eat it is to eat it raw, cut open the shell of the sea urchin, pick out the sea urchin roe and eat it directly or dip it in seasoning. You can also use fresh sea urchin roe to make soup, stir-fry or steam it with eggs, and use sea urchin roe as stuffing to make wontons and dumplings. 3. It must be fresh, edible and uncontaminated. 4. Pregnant women should not eat it often

Question 5: What seafood is the best to eat in June? The sea is closed now and will open in September. There may not be too many, and the ones that are are farmed. Now we can only eat some shellfish, you can try grilled clams, conches, snails, starfish, squid, and redhead fish. Prawns and crabs are also quite fat now, but they will be fatter in a month. Mussels are also good, and fresh jellyfish is delicious like jelly.

Question 6: Looking for the Red Bay Sea Urchin Base, the place to eat sea urchins is Zhalang Nan'ao

Question 7: What do sun sea stars eat? Starfish are carnivores. Their main prey is slow-moving marine animals, such as shellfish, sea urchins, crabs and sea anemones. They often adopt a slow and circuitous strategy when hunting, slowly approaching their prey, catching it with the tube feet on their wrists and wrapping their entire body around it, spitting out their stomach from their mouths.

What do starfish and sea urchins eat?

Starfish and sea urchins are both echinoderms. There are many types of echinoderms in the sea, in addition to the familiar starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers, there are also brittle stars (i.e. basket fish), sea lilies, etc. Echinoderms are a higher invertebrate with a five-radial system.

Starfish are distributed in the Pacific region, live on the seabed and crawl on the surface. Their five-radial system is very obvious. Starfish represent a higher stage of evolutionary development than sea anemones. Their five tentacles extend out, really like a beautiful five-pointed star.

There are water tubes in the body of the starfish, which are distributed all the way to the tentacles. The tentacles have tube feet that can secrete mucus. The starfish can firmly adhere to the substrate by creating a vacuum with the suction cups on the tentacles. The arms of the starfish have very strong power and can pull open the tightly closed shells of bivalves. Some scholars also believe that the starfish can also secrete some chemicals to anesthetize the adductor muscles of bivalves, and then turn the stomach out to wrap up shellfish and mollusks and eat them.

Starfish are carnivorous species that mainly feed on gastropods or bivalves of mollusks. Starfish have a very unique way of eating: they rely on the contraction of their body walls to eject their cardia stomach, which turns out of the body, wraps around food for digestion, and then retracts to deliver the food to their mouths.

Since starfish mainly feed on bivalves, they are extremely harmful to farmed scallops and other species and are considered a pest to the aquaculture industry.

Sea urchins are spherical in shape and covered with spines. If you observe the empty sea urchin, that is, the calcareous shell, you can see that there are also obvious five-radial marks on the fan-shaped shell.

Sea urchins are distributed in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. They are warm water species that like to live among reefs in the sea area below the intertidal zone, or in shallow sea areas with harder muddy sand, where they dig holes and live lurking on the seabed.

Sea urchins are covered with spines, some of which have poison glands on their spines. Sea urchins can only move slowly using their spines, so their range of activity is very small, and they only forage near caves.

Different types of sea urchins have different "dietary" diets. Some are "vegetarians" and feed on algae; some are omnivores, eating everything from protozoa to microorganisms; others are saprophagous, feeding on the corpses of other animals; and still others are carnivorous, feeding on organisms attached to rocks or coral reefs and small, slow-crawling animals. Some sea urchins are also pests of aquaculture.

The economic value of echinoderms is also great. In addition to the precious sea cucumber, sea urchins are also edible. Every summer and autumn, when the reproductive glands of sea urchins mature, it is the golden season for catching sea urchins. Eating sea urchins means eating their reproductive glands (sea urchin roe). Processed sea urchins are precious foods for export and foreign exchange earning. Many countries have served them at "state banquets".