Species Detail - Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland.".

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).
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Paracentrotus lividus
Purple Sea Urchin
NBNSYS0000188577 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
paliv
(Lamarck, 1816)
Echinoderm
Species
47
33
20
21/07/1993
13/09/1996
21 January (recorded in 2022)
21 October (recorded in 2023)
Trinity College, Marine sites, habitats and species data collected during the BioMar survey of Ireland., National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), accessed 16 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/258/Species/27638>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)