Echinasteridae

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 : 29

Fam: Echinasteridae

Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus (Retzius, 1783)

Material: 144 specimens; stations: T1, T2, T3, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S13, S14, S15, S16, t1, t2, t3, t4, t5, t6, t7; depth: 0-120 m; substrates: rocks, gravels, sand, meadows of sea grasses.

Distribution: Atlantic–Mediterranean.

Literature records for central and/or north Adriatic: Lorenz (1863), Kolosváry (1937), Zavodnik (1960, 1977, 1997), Tortonese (1965), Despalatović (2005), Zavodnik et al. (2005, 2006).

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

Literature records for Montenegro: Karaman & Gamulin-Brida (1970), Bruno (1972), Milojević (1979, 1982, 1986), Stjepčević & Parenzan (1980).

Remarks: Collected from almost all sampling stations.