WoRMS taxon details
Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835
123390 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123390)
accepted
Genus
Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus (Strongylocentrotus) Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (accepted at genus rank)
Echinus granularis Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (misidentification (possibly a...)
misidentification (possibly a Strongylocentrotus pallidus according to Jensen, 1974)
Euryechinus Verrill, 1866 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Paracentrotus (Strongylocentrotus) Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (accepted at genus rank)
Strongylocentrotrus · unaccepted (misspelling)
- Species Strongylocentrotus antiquus Philip, 1965 †
- Species Strongylocentrotus cotteaui A. Bell, 1897 †
- Species Strongylocentrotus djakonovi Baranova, 1957
- Species Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776)
- Species Strongylocentrotus fragilis Jackson, 1912
- Species Strongylocentrotus intermedius (A. Agassiz, 1864)
- Species Strongylocentrotus magistrus Nisiyama, 1966 †
- Species Strongylocentrotus octoporus Nisiyama, 1966 †
- Species Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1872)
- Species Strongylocentrotus polyacanthus A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907
- Species Strongylocentrotus pulchellus A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907
- Species Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Stimpson, 1857)
- Species Strongylocentrotus scaber Gregory, 1891 †
- Species Strongylocentrotus albus (Molina, 1782) accepted as Loxechinus albus (Molina, 1782) (transferred to Loxechinus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus armiger A. Agassiz, 1872 accepted as Heliocidaris erythrogramma armigera (A. Agassiz, 1872) (transferred to Heliocidaris)
- Species Strongylocentrotus bullatus Bell, 1881 accepted as Loxechinus albus (Molina, 1782) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus chlorocentrotus (Des Moulins, 1837) accepted as Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus chlorocentrotus Brandt, 1835 accepted as Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus depressus (A. Agassiz, 1864) accepted as Pseudocentrotus depressus (A. Agassiz, 1864) (transferred to Pseudocentrotus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus djakanovi accepted as Strongylocentrotus djakonovi Baranova, 1957 (misspelling or unjustified emendation)
- Species Strongylocentrotus Draebachiensis accepted as Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (misspelling)
- Species Strongylocentrotus echinoides A. Agassiz & H.L. Clark, 1907 accepted as Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1872) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus erythrogrammus (Valenciennes, 1846) accepted as Heliocidaris erythrogramma (Valenciennes, 1846) (transferred to Heliocidaris)
- Species Strongylocentrotus eurythrogrammus accepted as Heliocidaris erythrogramma (Valenciennes, 1846) (misspelling for Strongylocentrotus erythrogrammus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus franciscanus (A. Agassiz, 1863) accepted as Mesocentrotus franciscanus (A. Agassiz, 1863) (transferred to Mesocentrotus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus gaimardi (Blainville, 1825) accepted as Paracentrotus gaimardi (Blainville, 1825) (transferred to Paracentrotus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus gibbosus (L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) accepted as Caenocentrotus gibbosus (L. Agassiz in L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846) (transferred to Caenocentrosus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus globulosus (A. Agassiz, 1864) accepted as Heliocidaris crassispina (A. Agassiz, 1864) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus granularis (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Sphaerechinus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus granularis (Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (misidentification)
- Species Strongylocentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Paracentrotus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus nudus (A. Agassiz, 1864) accepted as Mesocentrotus nudus (A. Agassiz, 1864) (transferred to Mesocentrotus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus pictus (Norman, 1869) accepted as Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus pulcherrimus (A. Agassiz, 1864) accepted as Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus (A. Agassiz, 1864) (transferred to Hemicentrotus)
- Species Strongylocentrotus purpureus (von Martens, 1886) accepted as Heliocidaris crassispina (A. Agassiz, 1864) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus sachalinicus Döderlein, 1906 accepted as Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1872) (subjective junior synonym)
- Species Strongylocentrotus sachalinicus Clark, 1912 accepted as Strongylocentrotus sachalinicus Döderlein, 1906 accepted as Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1872) (erroneous authority)
- Species Strongylocentrotus tuberculatus (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Heliocidaris tuberculata (Lamarck, 1816) (transferred to Heliocidaris)
- Species Strongylocentrotus undus accepted as Strongylocentrotus nudus (A. Agassiz, 1864) accepted as Mesocentrotus nudus (A. Agassiz, 1864) (misspelling)
- Species Strongylocentrotus minihagali Deraniyagala, 1961 † (uncertain > nomen dubium, Indeterminate (fragment-based taxon))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
masculine
Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. <em>Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 63 [details]
page(s): 63 [details]
Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123390 on 2025-05-21
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Nomenclature
original description
Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. <em>Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 63 [details]
original description (of Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942) Mortensen, T. (1942). New Echinoidea (Camarodonta). Preliminary notice. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 106: 225-232.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Euryechinus Verrill, 1866) Verrill AE. (1866). On the Polyps and Echinoderms of New England, with Descriptions of new species. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 10: 333-364., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492315
page(s): 341 [details]
basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 63 [details]
original description (of Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942) Mortensen, T. (1942). New Echinoidea (Camarodonta). Preliminary notice. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 106: 225-232.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Euryechinus Verrill, 1866) Verrill AE. (1866). On the Polyps and Echinoderms of New England, with Descriptions of new species. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 10: 333-364., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492315
page(s): 341 [details]
basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.). , available online at https://www.gu.se/sites/default/files/2020-10/NEAT%2AEchinodermata.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Original description Different version of the work containing the original description exist, differing in the pagination; in one version Strongylocentrotus is described on p. 63, in the other version on p. 263 [details]
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | オオバフンウニ属 | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) (from synonym Echinus granularis Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Echinoid Directory
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942)
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Euryechinus Verrill, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Allocentrotus) (from synonym Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Strongylocentrotus)
To Genbank (from synonym Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942)
To Genbank
To PESI (from synonym Echinus granularis Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816)
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Echinoid Directory
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942)
To Echinoid Directory (from synonym Euryechinus Verrill, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Allocentrotus) (from synonym Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Strongylocentrotus)
To Genbank (from synonym Allocentrotus Mortensen, 1942)
To Genbank
To PESI (from synonym Echinus granularis Say, 1827 non Lamarck, 1816)
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
