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title: "Savigny's Longspine Sea Urchin"
description: "Diadema savignyi — Outros animais. Diadema savignyi is a species of long-spined sea urchin belonging to the family Diadematidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/savigny-s-longspine-sea-urchin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Savigny's Longspine Sea Urchin

> Diadema savignyi — Outros animais. Diadema savignyi is a species of long-spined sea urchin belonging to the family Diadematidae.

- Scientific name: *Diadema savignyi*
- Category: `other` (Outros animais)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1749
- Wikidata: [Q2794954](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2794954)
- iNaturalist taxon: [348179](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/348179)

## Names

- en: Savigny's Longspine Sea Urchin
- fr: Oursin-diadème de Savigny

## Countries with the most observations

US (705), AU (140), ID (88), PH (70), TW (47), PF (35), TZ (35), NF (34), ZA (21), KE (20), NC (15), SC (15)

## Summary

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. The type locality is Mauritius.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadema_savignyi

## Photo

![Savigny's Longspine Sea Urchin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/savigny-s-longspine-sea-urchin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben Keen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/140461642

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/savigny-s-longspine-sea-urchin?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).