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Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) 
AphiaID: 124321

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Carinacea (Infraclass) > Echinacea (Superorder) > Camarodonta (Order) > Echinidea (Infraorder) > Odontophora (Superfamily) > Strongylocentrotidae (Family) > Strongylocentrotus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835
Synonymised
taxa
  Echinometra droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (transferred to Strongylocentrotus)
Echinus (Toxopneustes) droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (transferred to Strongylocentrotus)
Echinus (Toxopneustes) dübenii L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 (incorrect original spelling (mandatory changed according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 32.5.2.1.))
Echinus (Toxopneustes) duebenii L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus (Toxopneustes) neglectus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus chlorocentrotus Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus dröbachiensis O.F. Müller, 1776 (misspelling)
Echinus droebachiensis O.F. Müller, 1776 (transferred to Strongylocentrotus)
Echinus granularis Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816 (misidentification)
Echinus granulatus Gould, 1841 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus pictus (Norman, 1869) (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus subangularis Fleming, 1829 (subjective junior synonym)
Euryechinus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (transferred to Strongylocentrotus)
Euryechinus granulatus (Gould, 1841) (subjective junior synonym)
Strongylocentrotus chlorocentrotus (Des Moulins, 1837) (subjective junior synonym)
Strongylocentrotus chlorocentrotus Brandt, 1835 (subjective junior synonym)
Strongylocentrotus Draebachiensis (misspelling)
Strongylocentrotus granularis (Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816) (misidentification)
Strongylocentrotus pictus (Norman, 1869) (subjective junior synonym)
Toxopneustes carnosus A. Agassiz, 1863 (subjective junior synonym)
Toxopneustes droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (transferred to Strongylocentrotus)
Toxopneustes neglectus (Lamarck, 1816) (subjective junior synonym)
Toxopneustes pictus Norman, 1869 (subjective junior synonym)
Sources  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): 198-215 [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]

additional source: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.  [details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[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 (from synonym): Say, T. 1827. On the species of the Linnean genus Echinus, inhabiting the coast of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5, 225-229., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79357#page/247/mode/1up
page(s): 225 [details] [view taxon]


basis of record (from synonym): Airaghi, C. 1898. Echinidi del Pliocene Lombardo. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia naturale in Milano, 37, 357-377.
page(s): 365 [details] [view taxon]


context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English green sea urchin  [details]
English northern sea urchin  [details]
English sea egg  [details]
German Dröbachs Seeigel  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål drøbaksjøpiggsvin  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk drøbaksjøpiggsvin  [details]
Swedish tistelsjöborre  [details]
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Subspecies Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis sachalinica Döderlein, 1906 accepted as Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1871)
Variety Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis var. sachalinica Döderlein, 1906 accepted as Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1871)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Atlantic Europe [details]
Belt Sea [details]
Bohuslän [details]
British Isles [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Channel Islands [details]
Chuki Sea [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
East Britain [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Faroe Islands [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Iceland [details]
Indo-Pacific [details]
Kara Sea [details]
Kattegat [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North East Coast of England  [details]
North Pacific [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern North Pacific [details]
Norway [details]
Öresund [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Scotland [details]
Shetlands [details]
Spitsbergen [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
White Sea [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Host of  Asterocheres violaceus (Claus, 1889) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (33 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (84 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (312 nucleotides; 322 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding: Echinopluteus larva. January to May [details]

Diet: Basically herbivorous but also ingests encrusting invertebrates including young Mytilus. [details]

Distribution: Arctic to New Jersey; Alaska to Puget Sound [details]

Distribution: From low intertidal, down to more than 200 m depth, on rocky and stony shores and offshore rough grounds, Scotland, Sshetland, northeast coast of England and northern North Sea [details]

Distribution: Circumpolar [details]

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]

Habitat: midlittoral, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
added on 2010-02-10 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - catch of common green urchins
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - catch of common green urchins
added on 2010-02-21 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - red variant
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - red variant
added on 2010-07-28 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - macro
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - macro
added on 2011-02-07 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124321
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2012-01-21 20:02:04Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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  Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776). 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=124321 on 2013-06-19
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