CaRMS Logo
Introduction | Search taxa | Taxon tree | Taxon match | Checklist | Literature | Stats | Photogallery | Log in

CaRMS taxon details

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

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Echinodermata > Echinozoa > Echinoidea > Euechinoidea > Carinacea > Echinacea > Camarodonta > Echinidea > Odontophora > Strongylocentrotidae > Strongylocentrotus
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835
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): 198-215 [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: 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]

context source: 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]
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
qualitystatus: not checked

Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - catch of common green urchins
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - catch of common green urchins
added on 2010-02-21 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - red variant
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - red variant
added on 2010-07-28 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - macro
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - macro
added on 2011-02-07 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
qualitystatus: not checked
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
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124321 on 2013-06-20
  
Website and databases developed and hosted by VLIZ · Page generated 2013-06-20 GMT · contact: