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Sterechinus neumayeri (Antarctic sea urchin)

Synonyms: Echinus neumayeri

Wikipedia Abstract

Sterechinus neumayeri, the Antarctic sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. It is found living on the seabed in the waters around Antarctica. It has been used as a model organism in the fields of reproductive biology, embryology, ecology, physiology and toxicology.
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Infraspecies

Sterechinus neumayeri neumayeri
Sterechinus neumayeri nigroalba

Prey / Diet

Mycale acerata[1]

Predators

Labidiaster annulatus[1]
Macroptychaster accrescens[1]
Trematomus bernacchii (Emerald notothen)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0