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Echinoidea taxon details

Spatangus purpureus O.F. Müller, 1776 
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  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]

original description (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
 
Language   Name 
Albanian iriqi zemër i detit i purpurt  [details]
Arabic kanfoude  [details]
Catalan garota cor  [details]
Dutch paarse zeeklit  [details]
Dutch purperen zeeklit  [details]
English purple heart urchin  [details]
English violet heart-urchin  [details]
French oursin de vase violet  [details]
French spatangue pourpre  [details]
German violetter Herzigel  [details]
Italian peto di dolfin  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål purpursjømus  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk purpursjømus  [details]
Spanish erizo de corazón purpúreo  [details]
Swedish purpursjömus  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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]
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
Attribute Functional group: benthos » Stage: adult (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
Functional group: plankton » Stage: larva (inherited from Echinodermata) [details]
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]
Images 
Spatangus purpureus O.F. Müller, 1776
Spatangus purpureus O.F. Müller, 1776
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Hillewaert, Hans
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2013-05-24 09:02:04

Spatangus purpureus
Spatangus purpureus
added on 2012-02-07 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2013-05-24 09:02:12

Spatangus purpureus
Spatangus purpureus
added on 2012-02-07 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2013-05-24 09:02:21

Spatangus purpureus
Spatangus purpureus
added on 2012-02-07 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2013-05-24 09:02:29

Spatangus purpureus
Spatangus purpureus
added on 2012-02-07 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2013-05-24 09:02:34
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124418
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2010-09-07 10:14:26Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
2010-09-25 21:07:08Z  changed  Kroh, Andreas
  
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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: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124418 on 2013-06-20
  

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