#4968 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin
🇳🇱 Rotszee-egel ·Paracentrotus lividus
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in Europe, not in NL
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jean-Paul Cassez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Sammy Kernane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © João Pontes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Daniel Benák · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Paracentrotus lividus is a species of sea urchin in the family Parechinidae commonly known as the purple sea urchin . It is the type species of the genus and occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean.
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.
- 6,979 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck in 1816 (210 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin
- Nederlands
- Rotszee-egel
- scientific name
- Paracentrotus lividus
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Camarodonta
- family
- Parechinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,735
- sightings worldwide
- 6,979
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1816 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
relatives· Parechinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48032, Wikidata Q901067, GBIF 2278845, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.