Species Detail - Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Paracentrotus lividus
Purple Sea Urchin
NBNSYS0000188577 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
paliv
(Lamarck, 1816)
Echinoderm
Species
1
1
1
24/05/2014
24/05/2014
21 January (recorded in 2022)
21 October (recorded in 2023)
Seasearch, SeaSearch records from Irish coastal waters, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/158/Species/27638>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)