Lovenia elongata Sea Mouse or Heart Urchin
These Sea Mice or Heart Urchins are the bane of shell collectors. I have countless painful spines in my finger tips and toes from digging up a promising bump only to be rewarded by a tassel of spines. After several such encounters I can usually work out the difference between a sea mouse bump or crack and that of a shell but not always. I knew about their crazy ambulatory habit but not their zombie like abilities. I saw one with a quarter of its shell missing and totally hollowed out by whatever had eaten i
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