Canadian Register of Marine Species - Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835

CaRMS taxon details

Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835

North Sea echinoids

AphiaID

123390 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123390)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Strongylocentrotidae Gregory, 1900

Direct children (3)

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Species Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (O.F. Müller, 1776)
Species Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Sars G.O., 1872)
Species Strongylocentrotus franciscanus (A. Agassiz, 1863) accepted as Mesocentrotus franciscanus (A. Agassiz, 1863) (transferred to Mesocentrotus)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 63 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Kroh, A.; Mooi, R. (2025). World Echinoidea Database. Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123390 on 2026-08-26

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Strongylocentrotus Brandt, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123390 on 2026-08-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hansson, Hans

2010-09-06 12:28:48Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

2022-05-17 08:00:14Z

changed

Kroh, Andreas

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original description Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 63 [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 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]

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Introduced: alien

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Original description Different version of the work containing the original description exist, differing in the pagination; in one version Strongylocentrotus is described on p. 63, in the other version on p. 263 [details]

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