Echinus melo — The Life Data

Animalia/Echinodermata/Echinoidea/Camarodonta/Echinidae/Echinus

At a glance

Occurrence records651

Data sources7

Biological traits4

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Echinus melo's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility454 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System197 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources4 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS651 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Echinus melo, melon sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

Other traits2

Depth max1 100 m

Depth min20 m

05DNA & barcoding3 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Echinus melo has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

Countries1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type651 records

Wild obs. + sensor270

Museum / vouchered79

Other302

Origin

Native5

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 196 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit130

200–1000 m twilight64

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 147.2 m · max 807 m · 194 records with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy94% within 1 km

≤100 m 52≤1 km 29≤10 km 4>10 km 1

86 georeferenced · 184 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor270

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy22% within 1 km

≤1 km 2≤10 km 2>10 km 5

9 georeferenced · 70 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence79

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions4 of 9 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
ICATMARlocation not on record	44
SCSDlocation not on record	8
Cambridge, US	5
Paris, FR	3
ICM-CSIClocation not on record	2
Chicago, US	2
South Kensington, GB	2
IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record	1
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	1

9 institutions · 68 of 79 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code