Haliotis tuberculata

Haliotis tuberculata

Year
2013
Face Value
15.00
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
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Themes
Animals
Paracentrotus lividus is a sea urchin of the genus Paracentrotus of the order Echinoida, which is found in the Mediterranean. It can reach 7 cm in diameter. Its 3 cm long spines, thick and smooth, are purple, green or brown in color. The sea urchin is an edible species that lives on stones, coralligenous algae and rocks.
Paracentrotus lividus is mainly active at night, it feeds on red algae.
Bathynectes maravigna is a circalittoral species, present in muddy sands and around hydrothermal vents. It is found in the Atlantic, throughout the Mediterranean and in the Black Sea, between 200 m and 1500 m deep. The Maravigna swimming crab has a finely granular polygonal carapace measuring 50x87 mm; its color is orange-red with white spots.
Haliotis tuberculata is a gastropod that measures up to 12 cm long. Its shell is flat, thick and oval in shape at the edge, reddish brown in color, sometimes marbled with cream. The interior is pearly. The arm is greenish brown in color. it lives on rocks where it feeds on red algae.
It is found from the surface to a depth of 15 m in the Atlantic, Channel and Mediterranean.