North Sea Benthos Survey (NSBS)

Echinoidea taxon details

Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758

Echinus esculentus

AphiaID

124287 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124287)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Echinus Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Echinus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Cidaris esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)

Cidaris hemisphaerica Leske, 1778 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus aurantiacus · unaccepted (misspelling)

Echinus auranticus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus eſculentus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (incorrect original spelling (ICZN...)

incorrect original spelling (ICZN 4th ed., Art. 32.5.)

Echinus globiformis Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus pseudomelo Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus pseudo-melo Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (incorrect original spelling...)

incorrect original spelling (mandatory changed according to ICZN 4th Ed. Article 32.5.2.3. - removal of hyphen)

Echinus quinquangulosus · unaccepted (misspelling)

Echinus quinqueangulatus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus quinqueangulosus · unaccepted (misspelling)

Echinus schwartzii Nilsson, 1817 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Echinus sphaera O.F. Müller, 1776 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus swartzii Nilsson & Holst, 1817 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Echinus violaceus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)

Sphærechinus esculentus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)

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Subspecies Echinus esculentus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1903
Subspecies Echinus esculentus glacialis D'yakonov, 1923
Subspecies Echinus esculentus depressa Süssbach & Breckner, 1910 accepted as Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1903 (subjective junior synonym)
Subspecies Echinus esculentus rufus Panning, 1923 accepted as Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1903 (misspelling)
Variety Echinus esculentus var. fuscus Mortensen, 1903 accepted as Echinus esculentus fuscus Mortensen, 1903 (accepted at subspecies rank)
Variety Echinus esculentus var. glacialis D'yakonov, 1923 accepted as Echinus esculentus glacialis D'yakonov, 1923 (accepted at subspecies rank)
Variety Echinus esculentus var. tenuispina Norman, 1868 accepted as Echinus tenuispinus Norman, 1868 (incorrect declination of infraspecific name)
Variety Echinus esculentus var. tenuispinus Norman, 1868 accepted as Echinus tenuispinus Norman, 1868 (accepted at species rank)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 663 [details] Available for editors

Type data

Type locality contained in European waters (ERMS scope)

type locality contained in European waters (ERMS scope) [details]

, Note North Sea Basin

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Type locality North Sea Basin
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Descriptive notes

Distribution From low intertidal, but mainly in the sublittoral zone, down to 40 m depth, occasionally deeper, on rocks, stones or seaweed;...

Distribution From low intertidal, but mainly in the sublittoral zone, down to 40 m depth, occasionally deeper, on rocks, stones or seaweed; the common sea urchin all round the British Isles [details]

Distribution Not Mediterranean

Distribution Not Mediterranean [details]

Fossil range Pliocene to Recent

Fossil range Pliocene to Recent
[details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2021). World Echinoidea Database. Echinus esculentus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124287 on 2025-02-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2010-09-21 21:08:20Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 663 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Echinus globiformis Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Tome troisième [in full: Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres présentant les caractéres généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent]. [book series]. 586 pp. Paris: Deterville/Verdière., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 44 [details]

original description (of Echinus quinqueangulatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 79 [details]

original description (of Echinus sphaera O.F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodrome of Danish Zoology, or the Native Animals of Denmark and Norway: the characters, names, and synonyms of the most popular ones.]. Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen. 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 235 [details]

original description (of Echinus violaceus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 80 [details]

original description (of Cidaris hemisphaerica Leske, 1778) Leske, N. G. 1778. Jacobi Theodori Klein naturalis dispositio echinodermatum . . ., edita et descriptionibus novisque inventis et synonomis auctorem aucta. Addimenta ad I. T. Klein naturalem dispositionem Echinodermatum. G. E. Beer, Leipzig, xxii+278 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN573613834
page(s): 90-92; pl. 2 (?nicht gut leserlich): fig. e, pl. 40: fig. 7 [details]

original description (of Echinus eſculentus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Echinus swartzii Nilsson & Holst, 1817) Nilsson, S., & Holst, A. Ludvig. 1817. Collectanea Zoologiae Scandinavicae. Londini Gothorum: Litteris Berlingianis
page(s): 7-9 [details]

original description (of Echinus pseudo-melo Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 77 [details]

original description (of Echinus auranticus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. d. 1825. Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires.). Pp. 59-98 in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303522
page(s): 79 [details]

basis of record Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ. 446 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.
page(s): 25-37 [details]

additional source Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Hansson, H. G. (1998). NEAT (North East Atlantic Taxa): Scandinavian Echinodermata Check-List (Comp.). , available online at https://www.gu.se/sites/default/files/2020-10/NEAT%2AEchinodermata.pdf [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Distribution Not Mediterranean [details]

Fossil range Pliocene to Recent
[details]

IUCN Red List Category IUCN Red List 1996 Low Risk/Near Threatened (Vers. 2.3) [details]

Type locality North Sea Basin
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Unreviewed

Breeding Echinopluteus larva. Early sumer [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Catalan	garota de fons atlàntica	[details]
Dutch	Europese eetbare zee-egeleetbare zeeappel	[details]
English	European edible sea urchinedible sea urchin	[details]
Finnish	ruokamerisiili	[details]
French	oursin globuleuxoursin d'Europeoursin comestible	[details]
German	Europäischer eßbarer Seeigelessbarer Seeigel	[details]
Lithuanian	valgomasis jūrų ežys	[details]
Norwegian	svabergsjøpiggsvin	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	svabergsjøpiggsvin	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	svabergsjøpiggsvin	[details]
Polish	jeżowiec jadalny	[details]
Russian	морской еж эхинус	[details]
Slovenian	užitni morski ježek	[details]
Spanish	erizo comestible de mar	[details]
Swedish	ätlig sjöborre	[details]
Turkish	deniz kestanesi	[details]
Ukrainian	Морський їжак їстівнийМорський їжак	[details]