List of echinoderms of Ireland
There are 75 species of echinoderm (phylum Echinodermata) recorded in Ireland.[1][2][3][4]
Test (hard shell) of the sea potato
Holothuria forskali (black sea cucumber)
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Ocnus planci, a sea cucumber
Amphipholis squamata (brooding snake star, dwarf brittle star)
Class Asteroidea (sea stars)
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Asterias rubens, the common sea star (starfish)
Spiny sea star
- Asterias rubens (common sea star)
- Leptasterias muelleri (northern sea star)
- Marthasterias glacialis (spiny sea star)
- Stichastrella rosea
Order Paxillosida
Family Astropectinidae
Astropecten irregularis on the seabed.
- Astropecten irregularis (sand sea star)
Family Luidiidae
Luidia ciliaris (seven-armed sea star)
- Luidia ciliaris (seven-armed sea star)
- Luidia sarsi
Order Spinulosida
Family Echinasteridae
Henricia sanguinolenta (bloody henry)
- Henricia oculata (bloody Henry starfish)
- Henricia sanguinolenta (northern henricia, bloody henry)
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
- Anseropoda placenta
- Asterina gibbosa (starlet cushion star)
- Asterina phylactica
Order Velatida
Family Solasteridae
- Crossaster papposus (common sunstar)
- Solaster endeca (purple sunstar, northern sunstar, smooth sun star)
Class Crinoidea (sea lilies, feather stars)
Order Comatulida (feather stars)
Family Antedonidae
Rosy feather star (Antedon bifida)
Antedon petasus, a feather star
Leptometra celtica, a feather star
- Antedon bifida (rosy feather star)
- Antedon petasus
- Leptometra celtica
Class Echinoidea (sea urchins)
Order Camarodonta
Family Parechinidae
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Paracentrotus lividus (purple sea urchin)
- Paracentrotus lividus (purple sea urchin)
- Psammechinus miliaris (green sea urchin / shore sea urchin)
Order Clypeasteroida (sand dollars)
Order Echinoida
Order Spatangoida (heart urchins)
Family Loveniidae
- Echinocardium cordatum (sea potato)
- Echinocardium flavescens
- Echinocardium pennatifidum
Class Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers)
Order Apodida
Family Synaptidae
- Labidoplax digitata
- Leptosynapta bergensis
- Leptosynapta inhaerens
Order Holothuriida
Family Holothuriidae
- Holothuria forskali (black sea cucumber / cotton-spinner)
Order Dendrochirotida
Family Cucumariidae
- Aslia lefevrei
- Cucumaria frondosa (orange-footed sea cucumber)
- Leptopentacta elongata
- Ocnus lacteus
- Ocnus planci
- Paracucumaria hyndmani (Hyndman's sea apple)
- Pawsonia saxicola (sea gherkin)
- Thyonidium drummondii
Family Phyllophoridae
- Neopentadactyla mixta
- Thyone fusus
- Thyone roscovita
Class Ophiuroidea (brittle stars)
Order Ophiurida
Family Amphiuridae (long-armed burrowing brittle stars)
- Amphipholis squamata (brooding snake star, dwarf brittle star)
- Amphiura brachiata
- Amphiura chiajei
- Amphiura filiformis
- Amphiura securigera
Family Ophiactidae
- Ophiactis balli
- Ophiopholis aculeata
Family Ophiocomidae
- Ophiocomina nigra (black brittle star / black serpent star)
- Ophiopsila annulosa
Family Ophiothricidae
Ophiothrix fragilis photographed in Strangford Lough
- Ophiothrix fragilis (common brittle star)
Family Ophiuridae
- Ophiocten affinis
- Ophiura albida (serpent’s table brittle star)
- Ophiura ophiura (serpent star)
References
- "Species Browser".
- Nichols, A. R. (1902). "A List of Irish Echinoderms". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section B. 24: 231–267. JSTOR 20516926.
- O'Connor, Brendan (1981). "Some Echinoderms from the West Coast New to the Irish Fauna". The Irish Naturalists' Journal. 20 (6): 247–249. JSTOR 25538494.
- "Details".
- Koehler R.,1921 Echinodermes. Faune de France n°1 240 p., 153 fig.PDF(11 Mo) Identification
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