| Status | |  unaccepted (transferred to Gracilechinus) |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Gracilechinus elegans (Düben & Koren, 1844) |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Echinus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| 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): 61-65 [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: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Norwegian Bokmål |
korallsjøpiggsvin |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
korallsjøpiggsvin |
[details] |
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Swedish |
djuphavssjöborre |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Bay of Biscay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
Norway [details]
Scotland [details]
Shetlands [details]
South Iceland [details]
South Norway [details]
Sweden [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of England [details]
West Ireland [details]
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| Feedingtypes | |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
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| Host of | |
Pseudanthessius assimilis Sars G.O., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Asterocheres violaceus (Claus, 1889) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
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| Attribute | | Functional group: benthos (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: adult
Functional group: plankton (inherited from Echinodermata)
» Stage: larva
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| Notes | |
Distribution: A deep water species, found occasionally between 100 and 200 m near the edge of the continental shelf to the west of Ireland and near Shetland [details]
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Publication date: 1844 [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124286 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Echinus elegans Düben & Koren, 1844. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124286 on 2013-05-24 |
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