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[edit]
- Asterias rubens (common sea star)
- Leptasterias muelleri (northern sea star)
- Marthasterias glacialis (spiny sea star)
- Stichastrella rosea
Order Paxillosida[edit]
Family Astropectinidae[edit]
- Astropecten irregularis (sand sea star)
Family Luidiidae[edit]
- Luidia ciliaris (seven-armed sea star)
- Luidia sarsi
Order Spinulosida[edit]
Family Echinasteridae[edit]
- Henricia oculata (bloody Henry starfish)
- Henricia sanguinolenta (northern henricia, bloody henry)
Order Valvatida[edit]
Family Asterinidae[edit]
- Anseropoda placenta
- Asterina gibbosa (starlet cushion star)
- Asterina phylactica
Family Poraniidae[edit]
Order Velatida[edit]
Family Solasteridae[edit]
- Crossaster papposus (common sunstar)
- Solaster endeca (purple sunstar, northern sunstar, smooth sun star)
Class Crinoidea (sea lilies, feather stars)[edit]
Order Comatulida (feather stars)[edit]
Family Antedonidae[edit]
- Antedon bifida (rosy feather star)
- Antedon petasus
- Leptometra celtica
Class Echinoidea (sea urchins)[edit]
Order Camarodonta[edit]
Family Parechinidae[edit]
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- Paracentrotus lividus (purple sea urchin)
- Psammechinus miliaris (green sea urchin / shore sea urchin)
Order Clypeasteroida (sand dollars)[edit]
Family Echinocyamidae[edit]
- Echinocyamus pusillus (pea urchin)
Order Echinoida[edit]
Family Echinidae[edit]
- 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]
Order Apodida[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]
Order Ophiurida[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[edit]
- 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