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

Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sphaerechinus*	Desor, 1856	accepted genus name
*Spaerechinus*		orthographic variant

Species group names

*Echinus (Toxopneustes) brevispinosus*	(Blainville, 1825)	synonym
*Echinus brevispinosus*	Blainville, 1825	synonym
*Echinus granularis*	de Lamarck, 1816	synonym
*Sphaerechinus roseus*	Russo, 1893	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: boga morada; garota violeta sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

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

English: violet sea urchin sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: oursin violet sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

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

Greek: Βιολετής αχινός sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: riccio di prateira; riccio granulare di mare sources: Riedl, R. 1983. Fauna und Flora des Mittelmeeres. Ein Systematischer Meeresführer für Biologen und Naturfreunde. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg, pp. 831.

Polish: ježovka fialová

Portuguese: ouriços de pontas redondas

Spanish, Castillian: erizo violáceo

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, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ. vii+553 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816). 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:124427