WoRMS taxon details
Spatangus purpureus O.F. Müller, 1776
AphiaID: 124418
AphiaID: 124418
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Spatangidea (Superfamily) > Spatangidae (Family) > Spatangus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Spatangus Gray, 1825 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Spatangus Gray, 1825 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Prospatangus purpureus (O.F. Müller, 1776) (unaccepted combination) Spatagus purpureus O.F. Müller, 1776 (misspelling of genus name) Spatangus meridionalis Risso, 1825 (subjective junior synonym) Spatangus Regina (misspelling) Spatangus reginae Gray, 1855 (erroneous authority (date)) Spatangus reginae Gray, 1851 (subjective junior synonym) Spatangus spinosissimus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [details] [full text]
basis of record: Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V, 2. Spatangoida II. Amphisternata II. Spatangidæ, Loveniidæ, Pericosmidæ, Schizasteridæ, Brissidæ, pp. 593. C. A. Reitzel; Copenhagen. page(s): 10-14 [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: 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: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (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] from synonym: Gray J.E. 1851. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Spatangidae in the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2nd Series 7, 130-134. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Malta (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Adriatic Sea [details] Aegean Sea [details] Azores [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bohuslän [details] British Isles [details] Calais [details] Central Mediterranean [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kattegat [details] Levantine Basin [details] Marseille [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Africa [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North East Atlantic [details] North France (not valid) [details] North Sea [details] Norway [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Öresund [details] Rockall [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Western Mediterranean [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: subsurface [details] grazer [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Pseudanthessius sauvagei Canu, 1892 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Scottomyzon gibberum (T. & A. Scott, 1894) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Micropontius ovoides Gooding, 1957 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (349 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Breeding: Echinopluteus larva. Summer [details] Distribution: Occasional low on shore, common offshore down to more than 200 m depth, burrowing in coarse sand or ogravel, all round the British Isles [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124418 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Spatangus purpureus 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=124418 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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