Paracentrotus

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. |- |}