Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Carinacea > Superorder Echinacea > Order Camarodonta > Infraorder Echinidea > Family Echinidae > Genus Echinus

Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

EchinusLinnaeus, 1758accepted genus name

Species group names

Echinus quinqueangulosus orthographic variant
Echinus aurantiacus Blainville, 1825 synonym
Echinus globiformis Lamarck, 1816 synonym
Echinus pseudomelo Blainville, 1825 synonym
Echinus quinqueangulatus Blainville, 1825 synonym
Echinus quinqueangulosus synonym
Echinus Schwartzii Nilsson, 1817 synonym
Echinus sphaera O.F. Müller, 1776 synonym
Echinus violaceus Blainville, 1825 synonym

Children

Echinus esculentus glacialis D'yakonov, 1923

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Bokmål (Norwegian): svabergsjøpiggsvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Catalan: garota de fons atlàntica sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.
 Dutch: eetbare zeeappel sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 English: edible sea urchin sources: BIOTIC
 English-United States: Edible Sea Urchin sources: Charles Hussey
 Finnish: ruokamerisiili
 French: oursin comestible; oursin globuleux sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.
 German: essbarer Seeigel
 Lithuanian: valgomasis jūrų ežys sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian: svabergsjøpiggsvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: svabergsjøpiggsvin sources: Systema Naturae ed. 10
 Norwegian Nynorsk: svabergsjøpiggsvin sources: Systema Naturae ed. 10
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): svabergsjøpiggsvin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: jeżowiec jadalny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: морской еж эхинус sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: užitni morski ježek sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Spanish, Castillian: erizo comestible de mar sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.
 Swedish: ätlig sjöborre
 Ukrainian: Морський їжак; Морський їжак їстівний

Literature

original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.

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

Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ, pp. 446. 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.

additional source

Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

additional source

North East Atlantic Taxa

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (582 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (7 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Kroh, A. (2014). Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758. In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2014) World Echinoidea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124287

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2010-09-21 by Andreas Kroh

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