Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816)

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050

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Sphaerechinus granularis AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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Sphaerechinus granularis

Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Echinoidea | Camarodonta | Toxopneustidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

; गहराई सीमा 2 - 130 m (संदर्भ 85345). Temperate; 53°N - 13°N, 32°W - 37°E

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea: from Ireland to the English Channel (French coast) to Spain, into the entire Mediterranean, to Morocco and Gulf of Guinea, including the islands of Azores, Madeira, Canary and Cape Verde. Temperate and subtropical.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: L_m ? range ? - ? cm

Maximum depth from Ref. 106595. Intertidal (Ref. 106595) to sublittoral (Ref. 106593). Found on rocky shores (Refs. 106372, 106591, 106593, 106597). Also on grounds consisting of gravel encrusted with calcareous red algae (Ref. 106597). Herbivorous grazer (Ref. 106997). Grazes on encrusting coralline algae on rocks, on dead Posidonia oceanica leaves and their epiphytes, and on the rhizomes and roots of the seagrass when accessible (Ref. 106595). Scrapes the external part of rhizomes and consumes the roots entirely (Ref. 106997). Bioeroder since it feeds on any coralline substrate (Ref. 106598).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the class Echinoidea are gonochoric. Fertilization is external. Brooding is common, eggs are held either on the peristome, around the periproct or deep into the concavities on the petaloids. Life cycle: Embryos develop into planktotrophic larvae (echinoplateus) and live for several months before they sink to the bottom using their tube feet to adhere on the ground where they metamorphose into young urchins.