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Mediterranean Heart Urchin

Echinocardium mediterraneum

Classification

Echinocardium is a genus of sea urchins of the family Loveniidae, known as heart urchins. The name is derived from the Greek ἐχῖνος (echinos, "hedgehog, urchin") and καρδία (kardia, "heart"). Taxonomy The genus was first described in 1825 by John Edward Gray, and the type species is Spatangus pusillus Leske, 1778 by subsequent designation.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Italy · 50France · 48Spain · 24