Paracentrotus

Also known as Paracentrotus Mortensen, 1903

Paracentrotus is a genus of sea urchin in the family Parechinidae described in 1903 by Mortensen.

Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumEchinodermata
ClassEchinoidea
OrderCamarodonta
FamilyParechinidae

Habitatmarine

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Research

1,117 papers

Analysis of translation using polysome profiling.Nucleic acids research · 2017
Overfishing and sea warming drive the collapse of Paracentrotus lividus.Scientific reports · 2025
Accumulation and Speciation of Cobalt in Paracentrotus lividus.Environmental science & technology · 2022
Valorisation of sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) gonads through canning.Food chemistry · 2024
Early-stage anomalies in the sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) as bioindicators of multiple stressors in the marine environment: Overview and future perspectives.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2021

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taxon name: Paracentrotus
Commons category: Paracentrotus

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Paracentrotus is a genus of sea urchin in the family Parechinidae described in 1903 by Mortensen.

==List of Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Paracentrotus gaimardi (Blainville, 1825)||southeast Brazil |- |120px ||Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) (purple sea urchin)||Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. |- |}