| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Echinocyamus van Phelsum, 1774 |
| Source | |
additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Vernacular
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent + fossil |
| Feedingtypes | |
carnivore [details]
deposit feeder [details]
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| Links | | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (255 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: Echinocyamus pusillus is a small sea urchin with an oval, flattened body measuring up to 15 mm long. The calcite skeleton is completely covered with fine short spines and coloured grey to greenish. Specimens become completely green when injured, a characteristic the species shares with some other sea urchin species. [details]
Distribution: Echinocyamus pusillus occurred outside the near-coastal zone in both periods. In the 1994-2001 period the species was furthermore observed a number of times in the western coastal zone. Maximum density is 400 ind./m2 (1994-2001 period). [details]
Habitat: Echinocyamus pusillus has a preference for medium to coarse-grained sand (median grain size: > 200 µm) and reaches an optimum in sediments with a median grain size of 500-550 µm (relative occurrence: 30%). The species furthermore prefers sediments with a low mud content (maximum 10%). [details]
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| Images | | 
Picture of Echinocyamus pusillus
added on 2003-02-21 - author: van der Hoek, J.
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2010-09-25 23:25:39 |
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Picture of Echinocyamus pusillus
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Hillewaert, H.
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2010-09-25 23:25:14 |
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Echinocyamus pusillus (O.F. Müller, 1776)
added on 2006-09-12 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: checked by Kroh, Andreas on 2010-09-25 23:26:11 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124273 |
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| | | Citation: Kroh, A.; Hansson, H. (2013). Echinocyamus pusillus (O.F. Müller, 1776). In: Kroh, A. & Mooi, R. (2013) World Echinoidea Database. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124273 on 2013-05-26 |
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