#5062 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin
🇳🇱 Diadema-zee-egel ·Diadema antillarum
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 outside Europe
📍 St Thomas 00802, USVI
📍 Puerto Rico
📍 Hams Bluff Rd, United States Virgin Islands, US
📍 Tamarindo Beach Road, Culebra, 00775, Puerto Rico
📍 Curaçao
📍 Condado, San Juan, 00907, Puerto Rico
📍 Puerto Rico
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Greg Grimes · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Barry Peters · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0
- 4. St Thomas 00802, USVI:© John C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Puerto Rico:© gena of Jesus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Hams Bluff Rd, United States Virgin Islands, US:© Thriving Islands · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tamarindo Beach Road, Culebra, 00775, Puerto Rico:© dtsapalas · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Curaçao:© Didy Ramirez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Condado, San Juan, 00907, Puerto Rico:© gena of Jesus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Puerto Rico:© gena of Jesus · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Diadema antillarum , also known as the lime urchin , black sea urchin , Grabaskey's bane or the long-spined sea urchin , is a species of sea urchin in the Family Diadematidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,355 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Rudolf Amandus Philippi in 1845 (181 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin
- Nederlands
- Diadema-zee-egel
- scientific name
- Diadema antillarum
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Diadematoida
- family
- Diadematidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,355
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1845 by Rudolf Amandus Philippi
relatives· Diadematidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 52290, Wikidata Q1999987, GBIF 5188162, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.