WoRMS taxon details
Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758)
124249 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124249)
accepted
Species
Arbacia aequituberculata (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted
Arbacia australis Lovén, 1887 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Arbacia grandinosa (Valenciennes, 1846) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Arbacia pustulosa (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris (Agarites) loculatua (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris (Tetrapygus) aequituberculatus (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris (Tetrapygus) grandinosa (Valenciennes, 1846) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris (Tetrapygus) pustulosa (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris aequituberculata (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris grandinosa (Valenciennes, 1846) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris loculatua (Blainville, 1825) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinocidaris pustulosa (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus aequituberculatus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus equituberculatus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (misspelling for Echinus...)
misspelling for Echinus aequituberculatus
Echinus grandinosus Valenciennes, 1846 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (transferred to Arbacia)
Echinus loculatus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Echinus pustulosus (Leske, 1778) · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
- Subspecies Arbacia lixula africana (Troschel, 1873)
- Subspecies Arbacia lixula lixula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Variety Arbacia lixula var. africana (Troschel, 1873) accepted as Arbacia lixula africana (Troschel, 1873) (accepted as subspecies)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 664 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 664 [details] Available for editors
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Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2026). World Echinoidea Database. Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124249 on 2026-10-01
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Echinus aequituberculatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Echinus loculatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 75-76 [details]
original description (of Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825) Delle Chiaje S. (1823-1831). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. <em>Napoli: Fratelli Fernandes (vol. 1), and Società Tipografica (vol. 2-4).</em> Vol. 1, pp. i-xii, 1-84 [1823], pp. 1-184 [1824]; vol. 2, pp. [1-4] + 185-224 [1825], pp. 225-444 [1826]; vol. 3, pp. i-xx, pp. 1-232 [1828]; vol. 4, pp. i-vii [1831], 1-116 [1830], pp. 117-214 [1831]; pl. 1-4; pl. 1-69 [date?], pl. 70-109 [1830][dates according to Sherborn, 1922]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10021
page(s): 364; pl. 22: figs 11-22 [details]
original description (of Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834
page(s): 150; pl. 11: figs A-D [details]
original description (of Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 664 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Arbacia australis Lovén, 1887) Lovén, S. 1887. On the Species of Echinoidea described by Linnæus in his work "Museum Ludivicæ ulricæ". Bihang Till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13, 1-185.
page(s): 114 [details]
original description (of Echinus grandinosus Valenciennes, 1846) Valenciennes, A. 1846. [Zoophytes] in A. du Petit-Thouars Voyage autour de monde sur la frégate La Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839. Atlas de Zoologie Gide et Cie, Paris. [not paginated]
page(s): pl. 11: figs 1, 1a-m [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): 76 [details]
original description (of Echinus loculatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 75-76 [details]
original description (of Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825) Delle Chiaje S. (1823-1831). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. <em>Napoli: Fratelli Fernandes (vol. 1), and Società Tipografica (vol. 2-4).</em> Vol. 1, pp. i-xii, 1-84 [1823], pp. 1-184 [1824]; vol. 2, pp. [1-4] + 185-224 [1825], pp. 225-444 [1826]; vol. 3, pp. i-xx, pp. 1-232 [1828]; vol. 4, pp. i-vii [1831], 1-116 [1830], pp. 117-214 [1831]; pl. 1-4; pl. 1-69 [date?], pl. 70-109 [1830][dates according to Sherborn, 1922]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10021
page(s): 364; pl. 22: figs 11-22 [details]
original description (of Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834
page(s): 150; pl. 11: figs A-D [details]
original description (of Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 664 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Arbacia australis Lovén, 1887) Lovén, S. 1887. On the Species of Echinoidea described by Linnæus in his work "Museum Ludivicæ ulricæ". Bihang Till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13, 1-185.
page(s): 114 [details]
original description (of Echinus grandinosus Valenciennes, 1846) Valenciennes, A. 1846. [Zoophytes] in A. du Petit-Thouars Voyage autour de monde sur la frégate La Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839. Atlas de Zoologie Gide et Cie, Paris. [not paginated]
page(s): pl. 11: figs 1, 1a-m [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
context source (WoRCS)
Digenis, M.; Ragkousis, M.; Dimitriadis, C.; Katsanevakis, S.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2025). Assessing the Motile Fauna of Eastern Mediterranean Marine Caves. <em>Fishes.</em> 10(8): 383., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10080383 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lessios, H. A., Lockhart, S., Collin, R., Sotil, G., Sanchez-Jerez, P., Zigler, K. S., Perez, A. F., Garrido, M. J., Geyer, L. B., Bernardi, G., Vaquier, V. D., Haroun, R. & Kessing, B. D. 2012. Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution. Molecular Ecology 21, 130-144., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05303.x [details]
additional source Mortensen, T. (1935). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, 647 pp., C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 566-570 [details]
[request]additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lessios, H. A., Lockhart, S., Collin, R., Sotil, G., Sanchez-Jerez, P., Zigler, K. S., Perez, A. F., Garrido, M. J., Geyer, L. B., Bernardi, G., Vaquier, V. D., Haroun, R. & Kessing, B. D. 2012. Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution. Molecular Ecology 21, 130-144., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05303.x [details]
additional source Mortensen, T. (1935). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. II. Bothriocidaroida, Melonechinoida, Lepidocentroida, and Stirodonta, 647 pp., C. A. Reitzel & Oxford University Press, Copenhagen & London.
page(s): 566-570 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | iriqi i zi i detitgështënja e detitferrçori i zi | [details] |
| Catalan | garota negraeriçó jueu | [details] |
| Croatian | jezinac crni | [details] |
| English | Black Sea urchin | [details] |
| French | oursin noiroursin mâle | [details] |
| German | schwarzer Seeigel | [details] |
| Italian | riccio maschioriccio di mare | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | Αχινός ΕβραίοςMavros achinos | [details] |
| Portuguese | ouriço preto | [details] |
| Spanish | erizo negro | [details] |
| Turkish | deniz kestanesi | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (189 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Arbacia aequituberculata (Blainville, 1825))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (157 publications) (from synonym Arbacia pustulosa (Leske, 1778))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Echinus aequituberculatus Blainville, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arbacia lixula)
To GenBank (1116 nucleotides; 416 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778)
To PESI (from synonym Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758)
To PESI (from synonym Echinus aequituberculatus Blainville, 1825)
To PESI (from synonym Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (12 records)
ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:813F7F2C-2302-4A16-9994-2E81206017EE (from synonym Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Arbacia aequituberculata (Blainville, 1825))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (157 publications) (from synonym Arbacia pustulosa (Leske, 1778))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Echinus aequituberculatus Blainville, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arbacia lixula)
To GenBank (1116 nucleotides; 416 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Cidaris pustulosa Leske, 1778)
To PESI (from synonym Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758)
To PESI (from synonym Echinus aequituberculatus Blainville, 1825)
To PESI (from synonym Echinus neapolitanus Delle Chiaje, 1825)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (12 records)
ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:813F7F2C-2302-4A16-9994-2E81206017EE (from synonym Echinus lixula Linnaeus, 1758)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
