List of echinoderms of Ireland
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There are 75 species of echinoderm (phylum Echinodermata) recorded in Ireland.[1][2][3][4]
Class Asteroidea (sea stars)
[edit]Order Forcipulatida
[edit]Family Asteriidae
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- Asterias rubens (common sea star)
- Leptasterias muelleri (northern sea star)
- Marthasterias glacialis (spiny sea star)
- Stichastrella rosea
Order Paxillosida
[edit]Family Astropectinidae
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- Astropecten irregularis (sand sea star)
- Luidia ciliaris (seven-armed sea star)
- Luidia sarsi
Order Spinulosida
[edit]Family Echinasteridae
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- Henricia oculata (bloody Henry starfish)
- Henricia sanguinolenta (northern henricia, bloody henry)
Family Asterinidae
[edit]- Anseropoda placenta
- Asterina gibbosa (starlet cushion star)
- Asterina phylactica
Family Poraniidae
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Family Solasteridae
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- Crossaster papposus (common sunstar)
- Solaster endeca (purple sunstar, northern sunstar, smooth sun star)
Order Comatulida (feather stars)
[edit]Family Antedonidae
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- Antedon bifida (rosy feather star)
- Antedon petasus
- Leptometra celtica
Class Echinoidea (sea urchins)
[edit]Order Camarodonta
[edit]Family Parechinidae
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- Paracentrotus lividus (purple sea urchin)
- Psammechinus miliaris (green sea urchin / shore sea urchin)
Order Clypeasteroida (sand dollars)
[edit]Family Echinocyamidae
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- Echinocyamus pusillus (pea urchin)
- Echinus esculentus (European edible sea urchin)
Order Spatangoida (heart urchins)
[edit]Family Loveniidae
[edit]- Echinocardium cordatum (sea potato)
- Echinocardium flavescens (yellow sea potato)
- Echinocardium pennatifidum
Class Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers)
[edit]Family Synaptidae
[edit]Order Holothuriida
[edit]Family Holothuriidae
[edit]- Holothuria forskali (black sea cucumber / cotton-spinner)
Order Dendrochirotida
[edit]Family Cucumariidae
[edit]- Aslia lefevrei
- Cucumaria frondosa (orange-footed sea cucumber)
- Leptopentacta elongata
- Ocnus lacteus
- Ocnus planci
- Paracucumaria hyndmani (Hyndman's sea apple)
- Pawsonia saxicola (sea gherkin)
- Thyonidium drummondii
Family Phyllophoridae
[edit]Class Ophiuroidea (brittle stars)
[edit]Family Amphiuridae (long-armed burrowing brittle stars)
[edit]- Amphipholis squamata (brooding snake star, dwarf brittle star)
- Amphiura brachiata
- Amphiura chiajei
- Amphiura filiformis
- Amphiura securigera
Family Ophiactidae
[edit]- Ophiactis balli
- Ophiopholis aculeata (crevice brittle star, daisy brittle star)
Family Ophiocomidae
[edit]- Ophiocomina nigra (black brittle star / black serpent star)
- Ophiopsila annulosa
Family Ophiothricidae
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- Ophiothrix fragilis (common brittle star)
Family Ophiuridae
[edit]- Ophiocten affinis
- Ophiura albida (serpent’s table brittle star)
- Ophiura ophiura (serpent star)
References
[edit]- ^ "Species Browser".
- ^ Nichols, A. R. (1902). "A List of Irish Echinoderms". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section B. 24: 231–267. JSTOR 20516926.
- ^ O'Connor, Brendan (1981). "Some Echinoderms from the West Coast New to the Irish Fauna". The Irish Naturalists' Journal. 20 (6): 247–249. JSTOR 25538494.
- ^ "Details".
- Koehler R.,1921 Echinodermes. Faune de France n°1 240 p., 153 fig.PDF(11 Mo) Identification