Loxechinus albus   (Molina, 1782)

Chilean sea urchin

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Camarodonta | Parechinidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 340 m (Ref. 87801).  Subtropical, preferred 13°C (Ref. 107945); 6°S - 55°S, 82°W - 58°W (Ref. 101470)

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

South America: from northern Chile, to Tierra del Fuego up to 37°S and Port William, Falkland Islands in the east.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 15.0 cm WD maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 87801)

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Fished along Chilean coasts since the 1960's and has been used as a food source since pre-Columbian times. It is found on rocky substrates from the intertidal to a depth of 340 m, and it feeds on Macrocystis sp. (Ref. 87801).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Members of the class Echinoidea are gonochoric. Fertilization is external. Brooding is common, eggs are held either on the peristome, around the periproct or deep into the concavities on the petaloids. Life cycle: Embryos develop into planktotrophic larvae (echinoplateus) and live for several months before they sink to the bottom using their tube feet to adhere on the ground where they metamorphose into young urchins.

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

MarineSpecies.org. 2050. (Ref. 3477)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale
FAO - pesca: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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E-book | Giuda pratica

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Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(pesca: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 5.1 - 14.4, mean 7.5 (based on 408 cells).
Prior r = 0.57, 95% CL = 0.37 - 0.85, Based on 1 data-limited stock assessment.
Nutrients: Calcium = 126 [75, 177] mg/100g; Iron = 5.08 [1.67, 7.92] mg/100g; Protein = 12%; Omega3 = 0.331 [0.263, 0.400] g/100g; Selenium = 0.04 [48.48, 67.17] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.97 [0.92, 3.02] mg/100g (wet weight).