Echinometra lucunter lucunter ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), Zootaxa 4639 (1), pp. 1-231 : 172

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583498

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Echinometra lucunter lucunter ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
status

 

Erroneous— Echinometra lucunter lucunter ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

Echinometra subangularis Desmoulins—Agassiz 1872: 234 View in CoL .

See: Mortensen (1943a: 357–368, figs. 172–175, pl. 41, figs. 1–5, pl. 42, figs. 12–14, pl. 43, figs. 1–13, pl. 44, fig. 9, pl. 64, figs. 17, 20–24); Pawson (1978: 20–23, figs. 8–10).

Occurrence: Atlantic, from North Carolina and Bermuda, southwards to Brazil ( Mortensen 1943a, Schultz 2006), and eastwards from Cape Verde to Angola (H.L. Clark 1925, Mortensen 1936); the subspecies E. lucunter polypora is restricted to Ascension and St. Helena islands ( Pawson 1978).

Depth: 0–45 m ( Mortensen 1943a).

Habitat: hard substrates (bioeroder; Mortensen 1943a).

Larval stage: planktotrophic ( Mortensen 1921).

Fossil record: Ericichnus bromleyi, a relatively recent described ichnospecies portraying groove-borings found in a Pliocene fossiliferous outcrop in Malbusca (Santa Maria Island) is thought to be made by the sea urchin Echinometra lucunter (see Santos et al. 2015).

Commercial value: edible ( Lawrence 2007).

Remarks: Agassiz (1872) listed the Azores under the geographical range of Echinometra lucunter (under the name Echinometra subangularis ), which is clearly a misprint. The author never mentioned the archipelago again, whether listing the examined specimens’ locations or discussing the distribution range for this species. This tropical species does not occur in the present-day shallow waters of the Azores and no specimens were ever reported from the area.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Echinoidea

Order

Camarodonta

Family

Echinometridae

Genus

Echinometra

Loc

Echinometra lucunter lucunter ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P. 2019
2019
Loc

Echinometra subangularis Desmoulins—Agassiz 1872: 234

Desmoulins-Agassiz 1872: 234
1872
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