Lytechinus pictus
L. pictus
Image credit: Katherine Nesbit, UC San Diego
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32644271/
About L. pictus
Lytechinus pictus, the painted urchin, lives in the shallow reefs off the Pacific coasts of California and Mexico. This sea urchin is small, only 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter. The general color is white or pale straw brown, sometimes pinkish.
L. pictus is being developed as a genetically-enabled sea urchin model. Genetic lines of L. pictus have been generated with stable modifications that are useful for cell and developmental studies as well as physiological studies and drug screens.
Genome assembly statistics for L. pictus are shown below.