Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Aulodonta > Superorder Diadematacea > Order Diadematoida > Family Diadematidae > Genus Centrostephanus

Centrostephanus longispinus (Philippi, 1845)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Centrostephanus*	Peters, 1855	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cidaris (Diadema) longispina*	Philippi, 1845	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: eriçó de punxes llargues

French: oursin diadème de Méditerranée

German: Diademseeigel; langstacheliger Diademseeigel sources: Riedl, R. 1983. Fauna und Flora des Mittelmeeres. Ein Systematischer Meeresführer für Biologen und Naturfreunde. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg, pp. 831.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: riccio corona; riccio diadema sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: ilgaspyglis jūros ežys sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: diadema sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: erizo diadema mediterráneo; puercoespín marino; puercoespín marino mediterráneo sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Turkish: deniz kestanesi sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: морський їжак

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	Mortensen, T. (1940). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 1. Aulodonta, with Additions to Vol. II (Lepidocentroida and Stirodonta). 370 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
redescription	Pawson, D. L. & Miller, J. E. 1983. Systematics and Ecology of the Sea-Urchin Genus Centrostephanus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 20, 1-15.

Genbank

Citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Centrostephanus longispinus (Philippi, 1845). 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:124331