Animalia > Echinodermata > Echinoidea > Arbacioida > Arbaciidae > Arbacia > Arbacia punctulata

Arbacia punctulata (purple-spined sea urchin)

Synonyms: Anapesus carolinus; Arbacea punctulata; Echinocidaris davisii; Echinocidaris punctulata; Echinus punctulatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Atlantic purple sea urchin (Arbacia punctulata) is a species of sea urchins from the family Arbaciidae, native to the Atlantic Ocean.
View Wikipedia Record: Arbacia punctulata

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Reef

Predators

Balistes capriscus (Grey triggerfish)[2]
Haemulon melanurum (Grunt)[2]
Pagrus pagrus (Red porgy)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Echinocephalus pseudouncinatus[2]
Zoogonus rubellus[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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