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Echinocardium flavescens Yellow sea potata , Heart Urchin

Echinocardium flavescensis commonly referred to as Yellow sea potata , Heart Urchin. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 100 Liter is recommended.

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Echinocardium flavescens © Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland,Bild aus der Adria


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lexID:
6530 
AphiaID:
124394 
Scientific:
Echinocardium flavescens 
German:
Nordischer Herzigel 
English:
Yellow Sea Potata , Heart Urchin 
Category:
Sea Urchins 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinoidea (Class) > Spatangoida (Order) > Loveniidae (Family) > Echinocardium (Genus) > flavescens (Species) 
Initial determination:
(O.F. Müller, ), 1776 
Occurrence:
the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Azores, East-Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, the British Isles, the Mediterranean Sea 
Size:
1.97" - 3.54" (5cm - 9cm) 
Temperature:
50 °F - 77 °F (10°C - 25°C) 
Food:
Detritus 
Tank:
22 gal (~ 100L)  
Difficulty:
Average 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2013-12-20 19:47:04 

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Echinocardium flavescens (O.F. Müller, 1776)

The Yellow Seapotato is a yellow heart-shaped urchin.The size is up to 9,0 cm.The hart urchin lives buried in sand,gravel or muddy sand. Its spines are shorter than by sea urchins and look more like hair than spines.It feeds on organic waste.

Other heart urchins are similar.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Echinozoa (Subphylum) >Echinoidea (Class) > Euechinoidea (Subclass) > Irregularia (Infraclass) > Atelostomata (Superorder) > Spatangoida (Order) > Brissidina (Suborder) > Spatangidea (Superfamily) > Loveniidae (Family) > Echinocardiinae (Subfamily) > Echinocardium (Genus)

External links

  1. Encyclodedia of Life (EOL) (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Homepage von Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. Unterwasserwelt-Mittelmeer (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  6. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Echinocardium flavescens © Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland,Bild aus der Adria
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