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Mesocentrotus franciscanus (Red sea urchin)

Synonyms: Strongylocentrotus franciscanus; Toxocidaris franciscana

Wikipedia Abstract

The red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) is a sea urchin found in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California. It lives in shallow waters from the low-tide line to greater than 100 m (330 ft) deep, and is typically found on rocky shores sheltered from extreme wave action.
View Wikipedia Record: Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  1 year 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 6 months
Maximum Longevity [1]  200 years

Prey / Diet

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Syndesmis franciscana[6]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
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.
3Wootton, J. Timothy. "Estimates and tests of per capita interaction strength: diet, abundance, and impact of intertidally foraging birds." Ecological Monographs 67.1 (1997): 45+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
4D. J. Moitoza and D. W. Phillips, Prey defense, predator preference, and nonrandom diet: The interactions between Pycnopodia helianthoides and two species of sea urchins, Marine Biology Volume 53, Number 4 (1979), 299-304
5Site-specific differences in the feeding ecology of the California sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher (Labridae), Robert K. Cowen, Environmental Biology of Fishes Vol. 16, No. 1-3, pp. 193-203. 1986
6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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