page_title: Sea urchins of the Gulf of California
section_title: Chart of Northern Gulf sea urchins, heart urchins, and sand dollars
hierarchical_section_title: Sea urchins of the Gulf of California / Chart of Northern Gulf sea urchins, heart urchins, and sand dollars
caption_attribution_description: English: Macro of a Sand dollar (Encope grandis).
context_page_description: The sea urchins of the Gulf of California live between the coasts of the Baja California Peninsula to the west and mainland state of Sonora, Mexico to the east. The northern boundary is the lateral band of land with the remains of the Colorado River Delta, and the southern is the Pacific Ocean.
  The Gulf of California is known for its high diversity and endemism of biota. One type of marine animal that can be found in this region is the sea urchin. One echinoid, Mellita granti, is a sea urchin endemic to the Gulf of California.
context_section_description: The scientific names, biogeographic distributions, world distributions, and depth ranges found in the list above are from the Sea of Cortez Database.
  A study from 2005 adds the following species : Lytechinus anamesus, Toxopneustes roseus, Cassidulus pacificus, Mellita kanakoffi, Encope wetmorei, Brissus latecarinatus, Metalia spatagus, Brisaster townsendi, Moira clotho.
caption: Encope grandis
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