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*Echinus esculentus*, commonly known as the red sea urchin, is a regular echinoid found throughout the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. It’s notable for being a commercially harvested food source, prized for its edible gonads – termed “uni.” This species remains extant due to careful management...
Sterechinus neumayeri is a regular sea-urchin species native to the Antarctic waters. It’s notable as an extant echinidiana and a key model organism used by researchers studying polar marine environments. Scientists investigate this animal's physiology and adaptation to extreme cold, primarily those...
Echinus melo, commonly known as the melon urchin, is a species of regular sea urchin found in the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 and named for its large, globular test, which resembles a melon in both shape and proportions. The species bel...
Gracilechinus acutus is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae, placed in the genus Gracilechinus established by Kroh and Smith in their 2010 revision of echinoid taxonomy.
Sterechinus antarcticus is a species of regular sea urchin that inhabits the cold, benthic environments of the Southern Ocean. First described by the French zoologist René Koehler in 1901, it belongs to the family Echinidae and is well-adapted to survive in freezing Antarctic waters. This echinoid i...
Dermechinus horridus is a distinctive deep-sea sea urchin known for its cactus-like body form with prominent elongated spines, occurring in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters.
Sterechinus agassizii is a species of regular sea urchin belonging to the family Echinidae, first scientifically described by German zoologist Georg Pfeffer in 1886. The species is native to the cold marine environments of the Antarctic Ocean, where it lives on the seafloor and contributes to the lo...
Gracilechinus affinis is a deep-sea species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae, reclassified from Echinus to the genus Gracilechinus by Kroh and Smith in 2010.
Sterechinus diadema is a regular sea urchin classified within the family Echinidae, recognized for its distribution throughout the sub-Antarctic regions.
Gracilechinus lucidus is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae, classified in the genus Gracilechinus created by Kroh and Smith during their 2010 echinoid revision.
Echinus tenuispinus is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae, characterized by slender spines as indicated by its Latin specific epithet meaning 'thin-spined.'
Gracilechinus atlanticus is an Atlantic species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae, classified in the genus Gracilechinus established by Kroh and Smith in 2010.
Sterechinus dentifer is a species of sea urchin within the Echinidae family, primarily found inhabiting the cold, shallow benthic zones of the Antarctic.
Gracilechinus alexandri is a deep-water Atlantic sea urchin in the family Echinidae, placed in the genus Gracilechinus following Kroh and Smith's 2010 taxonomic revision.
Echinus gilchristi is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae found in South African waters, named in honor of John Gilchrist, a pioneering South African marine biologist.
Gracilechinus multidentatus is a deep-water echinid sea urchin named by H. L. Clark in 1925, treated in some classifications as Echinus multidentatus.
Echinus anchistus is a species of regular sea urchin in the family Echinidae, a genus of echinoids primarily found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
