Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

Echinometra lucunter (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-239; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Miramar Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean: Mexico to Colombia; Tropical Western Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela and northeast to southeast Brazilian coasts ( Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina States) ( Prata et al. 2017, Kroh and Mooi 2020).

Distribution in Paraíba: Cabo Branco Beach ( Gondim et al. 2008), Seixas Beach ( Prata et al. 2017) and Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Miller et al. 1995, Prata et al. 2017): Elongate oval test with two rows of large tubercules along the ambulacra and interambulacra, pairs of pores arranged in arcs of six and a large peristome. Spines long and slender, thickened at the base and sharply pointed at the tips. On aboral side, primary and secondary spines dark olive green, with greenish-violet to purple tips. In general, the colour is blackish (Fig. 11 a).