Species Detail - Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "iNaturalist Marine Species Records for 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
2
2
2
01/04/2018
06/04/2018
21 January (recorded in 2022)
21 October (recorded in 2023)
iNaturalist, iNaturalist Marine Species Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), accessed 21 July 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/387/Species/27638>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)