Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Echinoidea > Subclass Euechinoidea > Infraclass Carinacea > Superorder 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

SphaerechinusDesor, 1856accepted genus name
Spaerechinus orthographic variant
Spaerechinus synonym

Species group names

Echinus (Toxopneustes) 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: boga morada; 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

Mortensen, T. 1943. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidæ, Glyphocyphidæ, Temnopleuridæ and Toxopneustidæ, pp. vii+553. 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

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (158 publications)
GenBank (80 nucleotides; 46 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Kroh, A. (2014). Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816). 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:124427

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2013-08-27 by Andreas Kroh

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