Six Holed Keyhole Urchin Sand Dollar Burial

Video is untouched except for removal of audio due to the loudness of the surf. Video shot by me on Nanny Goat Beach - Sapelo Island, GA - USA. Shot in real-time.

Six Holed Keyhole Urchin Sand Dollar are marine animals that are commonly seen on beaches where they die and are bleached white - most often taken home by beachgoers.

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Superclass: Cryptosyringida
Class: Echinoidea
Subclass: Euechinoidea
Superorder: Gnathostomata
Order: Clypeasteroida
Suborder: Scutellina
Family:Mellitidae
Genus: Leodia
Species: L. sexiesperforata

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• sand
• dollar
• echinodermata
• echinoderm
• science
• biology
• marine
• ocean
• beach
• Sapelo
• Island
• Six
• Holed
• Keyhole
• Urchin

[mh605]

So cool! I've seen dead sand dollars, but never a live one. I didn't know they were a kind of sea urchin. Exciting!

[jghyers]

@mh605 Thank you so much for your comment! It was a great experience for me as well to be able to see it alive.

[Katalist1]

wow very relaxing video =)

[jghyers]

@Katalist1 Thanks for the comment. It was a very relaxing experience to film as well.

[fulee9999]

Yuck, it's like a prehistoric ugly piece of evolution. No legs, no eyes, no nothing, only the strange fur like thingy on it's lower part or whatever.. Oh yes, and the creepy breathing hole on it. With some effects it would make a great horror movie "The Attack Of The Round Shape Breathing Things"

[sketchone]

That baby has all wheel dive!(Yeah I know)

It's cool it knew to do that before the water came.

[jghyers]

@headshooter44 -- Thank you for your comments!

[headshooter44]

@fulee9999 it has more legs than you. that fur, you were talking about 3 years ago are actually some kind of legs to move around.

[headshooter44]

@HackMasterATB you are such a dumb ass. they have more legs than anything else, living on this planet. they are literarely covered in legs and arms. all these hairs on their surface and side and underside and even inside the breathing holes are legs to dig into the sand. they are a kind of sea star so they have thousands of legs. you are a fail at evolution because of that stupid comment.

[headshooter44]

@HackMasterATB many life forms died out in history but these things still live, so they are not a fail at all because they live and reproduce, wich is the sense of life.

[jghyers]

@unstopablenavyseal -- thanks for commenting!

[unstopablenavyseal]

nice