Annie, a recent student in my Galapagos marine ecology course sent me this photo of a lovely marine critter: 
Can you identify them, their habitat, and where the photo was taken?
UPDATE: There you go Annie, JP and Jez both nailed it. The photo was indeed from a rocky shoreline on Maui, Hawaii and the species is Colobocentrotus atratus or the “shingle urchin”. See other photos of this lovely beast here.
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