Species Detail - Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Explore Your Shore".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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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
53
21
13
19/09/2020
14/08/2025
21 January (recorded in 2022)
21 October (recorded in 2023)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Explore Your Shore, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), accessed 05 March 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/305/Species/27638

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)