The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·644530GenusAnimalia0 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Echinoderms
  3. ›sea urchins and sea cucumbers
  4. ›Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Heart Urchins
  5. ›sea urchins
  6. ›Carinacea
  7. ›Echinacea
  8. ›Camarodonta
  9. ›Echinidea
  10. ›Echinidae
No photograph on file

Dermechinus

Dermechinus is a genus of sea urchin in the family Echinidae found in deep water in the southern Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It is monotypic, with Dermechinus horridus, sometimes called the cactus urchin, being the only species.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Dermechinus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 644530.