How do you know when your urchin is dead?

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I have a tuxedo urchin in my aquarium. Last night I noticed that it was in a cave in the sand and my peppermint shrimp was on to of it doing something to it. This morning I couldn't tell if it moved or not. It does move very slowly and can spend days in the same spot. He's always been on the glass grazing on algae, but never in the sand until last night/this morning. Any idea what's going on?
 
Move it to glass ,see what happens,if dead remove rt away.
 

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