Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Carinacea > Subterclass Echinacea > Order Camarodonta > Infraorder Echinidea > Family Parechinidae > Genus Psammechinus

Psammechinus microtuberculatus (Blainville, 1825)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Psammechinus*	L. Agassiz & Desor, 1846	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Echinus microtuberculatus*	Blainville, 1825	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: eriçonet de mar; garotina sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona;Riedl, R. 1983. Fauna und Flora des Mittelmeeres. Ein Systematischer Meeresführer für Biologen und Naturfreunde. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg, pp. 831.

Croatian: ježi zeleni sources: Riedl, R. 1983. Fauna und Flora des Mittelmeeres. Ein Systematischer Meeresführer für Biologen und Naturfreunde. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg, pp. 831.

French: oursin grimpeur sources: Riedl, R. 1983. Fauna und Flora des Mittelmeeres. Ein Systematischer Meeresführer für Biologen und Naturfreunde. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg, pp. 831.

German: Kletterseeigel sources: Riedl, R. 1983. Fauna und Flora des Mittelmeeres. Ein Systematischer Meeresführer für Biologen und Naturfreunde. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg, pp. 831.

Greek: Αχινός άμμου sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ericillo de mar

Literature

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.
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. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ. 446 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Psammechinus microtuberculatus (Blainville, 1825). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124318