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Psammechinus microtuberculatus (Blainville, 1825) 
AphiaID: 124318

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Parechinidae (Family) > Psammechinus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Psammechinus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846
Synonymised
taxa		  Echinus (Psammechinus) microtuberculatus Blainville, 1825 (transferred to Psammechinus)
 Echinus decoratus L. Agassiz, 1841 (subjective junior synonym)
 Echinus microtuberculatus Blainville, 1825 (transferred to Psammechinus)
 Echinus parvituberculatus Blainville, 1834 (subjective junior synonym)
 Echinus pulchellus L. Agassiz, 1841 (subjective junior synonym)
 Psammechinus parvituberculatus (Blainville, 1834) (subjective junior synonym)
 Psammechinus pulchellus (L. Agassiz, 1841) (subjective junior synonym)
Sources  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): 139-147 [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Catalan eriçonet de mar  [details]
Catalan garotina  [details]
Croatian ježi zeleni  [details]
French oursin grimpeur  [details]
German Kletterseeigel  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Αχινός άμμου  [details]
Spanish ericillo de mar  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Aegean Sea [details]
Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Central Mediterranean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Levantine Basin [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Portugal [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Host of  Asterocheres minutus (Claus, 1889) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Asterocheres violaceus (Claus, 1889) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124318
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2010-09-07 10:14:26Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Psammechinus microtuberculatus (Blainville, 1825). 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=124318 on 2013-05-21
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