Diadema savignyi is a species of long-spined sea urchin belonging to the family Diadematidae. Common names include long-spined sea urchin, black longspine urchin and the banded diadem. It is native to the east coast of Africa, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. It was first described in 1829 by the French naturalist Jean Victoire Audouin. The specific epithet honours the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny who described many new marine species from the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.[2] The type locality is Mauritius.[1]
^ abKroh, Andreas (2013). Kroh A, Mooi R (eds.). "Diadema savignyi (Audouin, 1829)". World Echinoidea Database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
Diademasavignyi is a species of long-spined sea urchin belonging to the family Diadematidae. Common names include long-spined sea urchin, black longspine...
encountered in Kenya. The 5-fold symmetry is obvious. D. setosum along with Diademasavignyi : test shape, spines length and orange ring help telling them apart...
In its darkest forms, it can be confused with its cousins Diadema setosum or Diademasavignyi (which can both keep banded radiola when adult) ; however...
(Astropyga radiata), the black long-spined urchin (Diadema setosum) or the banded diadem urchin (Diademasavignyi). All these urchins have long, hollow spines...
Red Sea to Hawaii and French Polynesia, on Diademasavignyi, D. setosum, Echinothrix calamaris and E. diadema (Diadematidae), Heterocentrotus mammillatus...
hoplites polyps. Among them are long-spined sea urchins like Diadema setosum, Diademasavignyi, and Echinothrix calamaris. Brittle stars of the genus Ophiomastix...
the brittle stars, six-armed species such as Ophiothela danae, Ophiactis savignyi, and Ophionotus hexactis exists, and Ophiacantha vivipara often has more...
model deuterostome (2006) Ciona intestinalis, a tunicate (2002) Ciona savignyi, a tunicate (2007) Oikopleura dioica, a larvacean (2001). Branchiostoma...
capensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1852 (Agulhas to central KwaZulu-Natal) Thais savignyi Deshayes, 1844 (Zululand to Indo-Pacific) Thais wahlbergi (Saldanha to...
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