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Sea Urchin: Kina, Mercer Bay
Seashore: Sea Urchin: Kina, Mercer Bay
A sea urchin, Evechinus chloroticus or kina. They graze on seaweed and may live to be up to 15 years old. The pink weed around it is coralline algae, Corallina officinalis, which starts out as a flat pink encrustation on the rock and then gradually grows out branches.

August 2002