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Detailed View - MER-B Sol 048 Object

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Description:  budding sea urchin

Apparent size:  6 mm x 3 mm

Common features:  sea urchins can reproduce by budding (asexual reproduction)- this specimen shows two buds

 

 

Stacked frames:  4

Enhancement methods:

bright/contrast & difference 

Summary description of image contents:  a sea urchin with one central body and two buds fissioning from it

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