Toxopneustidae

Kašćelan, Slavica, Mandić, Sreten, Radović, Ivica & Krpo-Ćetković, Jasmina, 2009, An annotated checklist of Echinodermata of Montenegro (the south Adriatic Sea), Zootaxa 2275, pp. 21-40 : 35

Fam: Toxopneustidae

Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816)

Material: 255 specimens; stations: T1, T3, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S11, S13, S14, S15; depth: 1-20 m; substrates: stones, sand, mud, meadows of Posidonia oceanica .

Distribution: Atlantic–Mediterranean.

Literature records for central and/or north Adriatic: Kolosváry (1937), Zavodnik (1960, 1977, 1997), Tortonese (1965), Despalatović (2005), Zavodnik et al. (2005).

Literature records for south Adriatic ( Croatia): Zavodnik (2003).

Literature records for Montenegro: Tortonese (1965), Karaman & Gamulin-Brida (1970), Bruno (1972), Milojević (1979, 1982), Stjepčević & Parenzan (1980).