The Echiura, or spoon worms, have a pear shaped, non-segmented body and a large and non-retractile proboscis. In the anterior ventral region there is a pair of setae or hooks. They live in burrows in sand, mud, corals and coral crevices. Some species are found inside the tests of dead sand dollars and between the shells of dead bivalves. There is strong evidence that echiurans are in fact modified annelids.
The black sea urchin spines has relatively thick and very resistant spines. The coloration of the spines and carapace varies from dark brown to black. Known locally as “pindá” it is an abundant species on the Brazilian coast, coastal, found predominantly in holes bore into the rocks. It feeds on algae and encrusting animals. Occurs from Florida to southern Brazil, as well as West Indies, Bermuda, Ascension Island, St Helena and Angola.
