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Paracentrotus
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Paracentrotus

Paracentrotus is a genus of sea urchin in the family Parechinidae described in 1903 by Mortensen.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin

speciesParacentrotus lividus

Paracentrotus gaimardi

speciesParacentrotus gaimardi

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48033.