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Paracentrotus lividus is a littoral sea-urchin well known in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. In the British Isles it has been recorded only in Ireland, where it is common on the south and west coasts, and occasionally in Devonshire and Cornwall1.
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MACEWEN, E., HOBSON, A. Occurrence of Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck) in Scotland. Nature 174, 752 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174752a0
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