Paracentrotus is a genus of sea urchin in the family Parechinidae described in 1903 by Mortensen.
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Paracentrotus gaimardi (Blainville, 1825) | southeast Brazil | |
Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) (purple sea urchin) | Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. | |
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