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New Sea Urchin Species Found on Ebay

By khurrum1 ⋅ August 20, 2006 ⋅ ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

I guess you really can find any thing on Ebay. Scientists are now calling the little guy pictured above a Coelopleurus exquisitus (Zootaxa, vol 1281, p 1). They recently determined that this species of Sea Urchin was completely unknown to science until it was spotted on Ebay.

[ Link to Auction ] Sold for about $150

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