Links

 

Headword, Title, Website

Remarks

Australian Faunal Directory

Search machine

Australian Museum Collection, Marine Invertebrates

Some of the the most common sea urchins are shown

CAAB Search results

Links to taxon reports for more than 200 sea urchins

Clypeasteroida from Mexico

Los equinoideos del Pacifico de Mexico parte tercero-orden Clypeasteroida. In Spanish language, but with many photos.

Database of Aquatic Organism

Search machine, but for sea urchins only few results

Dealer´s websites

Mainly for shell collectors, but you may find the one or he other, who sells sea urchins, too

Deep sea echinoids

Some pictures

Do urchins have any sense?

PDF-file

Echinideintroduction

A very nice French site with many pictures.

Echinoderm Fauna of Thailand

PDF-file

Echinoderm Fauna of Thailand, History and Inventory Reviews

PDF-file

Echinodermata

Nice picture gallery

Echinodermata

Some nice pictures, mostly urchins with spines

Echinodermata

Japanese site with many field-photos, partly from sea urchins

Echinodermata Sammlung Marburg

Directory of the collection of the German university Marburg

Echinodermatas Recentes et Fósseis do Brasil

You can at least read, what has been recorded from Brazil

Echinoidea

Website from Dr. Dafni with some information and a lot of good pictures

Echinoids on pictures

Henk van Noordenburg shows parts of his famous collection (recent and fossil). A lot of fine photos.

Echinoids.nl

Website from Bas van der Steld with more than 200 urchins online. Very fine pictures! General information and photos from some other well known collectors.

Echinologia (Menu principal)

Le site des oursins fossiles

EchinoWorld

The internet group for all collectors with free membership. Established and managed by TOSI. With a lot of albums. Every serious collector should join this group!

European Echinodermata Checklist

PDF-file, from Tjärnö Marine Biological Labaratory (TMBL)

Faune marine de Mediterranée

Alphabetic list with links to all kinds of echinoderms

Fischfinder

An Online-guide for fishes and reefs, in German

Fossile & rezente Seeigel

Echinodermaten by Peter Lade. He offers a CD-ROM. Although the CD is in German language, you may find really a lot of pictures, which are not available elsewhere.

Genetic differentiation in the New Zealand sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus

PDF-file

GOBASE Taxon Query

The Organelle Genom Database

Hawai´i Coral Reef Network

Very fine field-photos and interesting links

Introduction to the Echinoidea

Only a short introduction

MarBEF Data System

With many links to marine life in European waters

Marine biology

A lot of very fine field-photos!

MarLIN, the Marine Life Information Network for Britain & Ireland

Search-machine

MBari Deep Sea Echinoids

Some nice field-photos

Meerwasser-Lexikon

A lot of field-photos with links to further information (in German)

MondoMarino

145 pictures and a search machine, very nice!

NaturalArt

Belgian seller. Have a look from time to time, as interesting urchins may be quickly out of stock!

Necromance

Seller, offers some sea urchins for reasonable prices

NMV Shellers Directory

List for shell collectors. With good luck you may find anyone, who sells or collects sea urchins.

Ocean Biogeographic Information System

OBIS, a search-engine with good taxa information. More or less restricted to America.

Ocean Footage

Some field-photos

OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEYS ON BOARD OF THE O/B "EL PUMA" VESSEL

THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS HESPEROCIDARIS MORTENSEN, ASTROPYGA GRAY, ARBACIA GRAY AND LYTECHINUS AGASSIS. In Spanish language with black/white photos

Ökologie der cidaroiden Seeigel des Wedellmeeres

PDF-file in German. Written by Ute Jakob for a degree in biology. For Non-Germans: Pictures of antarctic sea urchins

Poppeimages

Some nice field-photos from the Philippines

Sea urchin embryology

With good information and many animations! Try it!

Sea urchin embryology tutorial

Basically for students, but the information are also useful for collectors.

Sea urchin key for Southern California

Classification of Southern California sea urchins

Sea urchin world records

Information concerning the biggest, the smallest etc. sea urchins. Very interesting!

Sea urchins

Pictures and useful information

Sea urchins from Colombia

Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia, Menu principal. With an alphabetic list and links to the mentioned sea urchins.

Sea urchins, a tasty subject

General information with nice pictures from Reefkeeping

Some echinoids ….from off Norfolk Islands….

PDF-file

Taxinomie

Arbre taxinomique des principaux genres d´oursins fossiles et actuels.

Taxonomie browser

From National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI), USA

The Echinoid Directory

The echinoid bible! A must for every collector! If you have useful information or pictures, give them to Dr. A. B. Smith from the Natural Historic Museum

The irregular sea urchins from Taiwan with description of six new records

PDF-file

The rediscovery of Echinus elevatus Hutton 1872 in New Zealand

PDF-file

The strange apical system of the genus Pourtalesia

PDF-file

The Taxonomicon

Taxonomy search-engine

Tests and cross-sections of sea urchin spines

With some nice pictures

Urchins I

Website with nice pictures from Wetwebmedia and descriptions of some species

Urchins II

Website with nice pictures from wetwebmedia and descriptions of some species

Urchins of Hawai´i

Surely an incomplete list

www.sea-urchins.com/

Facts about the bookSea Urchins, a guide to worldwide shallow water speciesby Heinke Schultz. Probably the best book on the market!