WoRMS taxon details
Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 124287
AphiaID: 124287
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Echinidae (Family) > Echinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Typetaxon of |
Echinus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Echinus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cidaris esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted combination) Cidaris hemisphaera Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus aurantiacus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus eſculentus Linnaeus, 1758 (incorrect original spelling (ICZN 4th ed., Art. 32.5.)) Echinus globiformis Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus pseudomelo Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus quinquangulosus (misspelling) Echinus quinqueangulatus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus quinqueangulosus (misspelling) Echinus Schwartzii Nilsson, 1817 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus sphaera O.F. Müller, 1776 (subjective junior synonym) Echinus violaceus Blainville, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Sphærechinus esculentus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted combination) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 25-37 [details] additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Blainville, H.M.D. De 1834. Manuel d’Actinologie ou de Zoophytologie. (F.G. Levrault: Paris, Strasbourg): Volume 1 (text),1-viii, 1-644; Volume 2 (atlas), pls I-C., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k981319/f3.image page(s): 227 [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Echinus esculentus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1924 Subspecies Echinus esculentus glacialis D'yakonov, 1923 Subspecies Echinus esculentus depressa Süssbach & Breckner, 1910 accepted as Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1924 Subspecies Echinus esculentus rufus Panning, 1923 accepted as Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1924 Variety Echinus esculentus var. glacialis D'yakonov, 1923 accepted as Echinus esculentus glacialis D'yakonov, 1923 Variety Echinus esculentus var. tenuispinus Norman, 1868 accepted as Echinus tenuispinus Norman, 1868 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Atlantic Coast of France [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] English Channel [details] Iceland [details] Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kattegat [details] Murmansk Coast [details] North East Atlantic [details] Norway [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Öresund [details] Portugal [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Spitsbergen [details] Sweden [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of Norway [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Pseudanthessius liber (Brady, 1880) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Cryptopontius brevifurcatus (Giesbrecht, 1895) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Asterocheres echinicola (Norman, 1869) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Asterocheres violaceus (Claus, 1889) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (582 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:3501FE59-261C-4A1D-A87F-0117BC5E526B To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Breeding: Echinopluteus larva. Early sumer [details] Distribution: Not mediterranean [details] Distribution: From low intertidal, but mainly in the sublittoral zone, down to 40 m depth, occasionally deeper, on rocks, stones or seaweed; the common sea urchin all round the British Isles [details] IUCN Red List Category: IUCN Red List 1996 Low Risk/Near Threatened (Vers. 2.3) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124287 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124287 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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