Paracentrotus
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Paracentrotus is a genus of sea urchin in the family Parechinidae described in 1903 by Mortensen.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassEchinoidea
- OrderCamarodonta
- FamilyParechinidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Parechinidae
- Collections
- USNM, NHMUK, UAM, UF
- Recorded in
- Spain, France, Cyprus
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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- Paracentrotus
- taxonomic type
- Paracentrotus lividus
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Encyclopedic overview
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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. |- |}
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