Psammechinus microtuberculatus ( Blainville, 1825 )

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 : 174

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scientific name	Psammechinus microtuberculatus ( Blainville, 1825 )
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Erroneous— Psammechinus microtuberculatus ( Blainville, 1825) View in CoL

Reports for the Azores:

non Echinus microtuberculatus Blainville, 1825 — Barrois 1888: 109 [misidentified of P. miliaris View in CoL ]; non Psammechinus microtuberculatus ( Blainville, 1825) View in CoL — Nobre 1938: 111–112 [based on Barrois 1888]; Marques 1983: 5 [ju- venile Paracentrotus lividus View in CoL ]; Castro & Viegas 1983: 24 [misidentified of P. miliaris View in CoL ]; Pereira 1997: 334 [based on previous misidentifications]; Haddad & Barreiros 2008: 9 [based on previous misidentifications]; Micael & Costa 2010: 323 [based on previous misidentifications]; Micael et al. 2012: 4 [based on previous misidentifications].

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea.

See: Mortensen (1943a: 139–147, figs. 56c, 58c, 59b, 60a, 61, 62, 63a, pl. 10, figs. 6–9, pl. 17, figs. 6–9, pl. 58, figs. 10, 16–18, 22).

Occurrence: restricted to the Mediterranean Sea ( Mortensen 1943a).

Depth: 4–100 m ( Tortonese 1965).

Habitat: on rocky substrates and Posidonia prairies to muddy substrates where it feeds on animal matter ( Mortensen 1943a).

Larval stage: planktotrophic ( Emlet 1995).

Remarks: see remarks under Psammechinus miliaris .

References

Barrois, T. (1888) Liste des Echinodermes recueillis aux Acores durant les mois d'Ao r t et September 1887. Revue Biologique du Nord de la France, 1, 31 - 33 + 69 - 75 + 109 - 115.

Blainville, H. M. de (1825) Oursin, Echinus (Actinozoaires). In: Levrault, F. G. (Ed.), Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Vol. 37. Le Normat, Paris, pp. 59 - 98.

Castro, M. L. & Viegas, M. C. (1983) Estudo dos povoamentos de algas fotofilas da ilha de S. Miguel (Acores). Arquipelago, Serie Ciencias da Natureza, 4, 7 - 30.

Emlet, R. B. (1995) Developmental mode and species geographic range in regular sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Evolution, 49 (3), 476 - 489. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1558 - 5646.1995. tb 02280. x

Haddad Jr, V. & Barreiros, J. P. (2008) Dangerous Azorean Marine Animals: a field guide. Blu Edicies, Terceira, Acores, 60 pp.

Marques, V. M. (1983) Peuplements benthiques de Acores, 1 - echinoderms. Arquivo do Museu Bocage, AII (I), 1 - 7.

Micael, J. & Costa A. C. (2010) Echinodermata. In: Borges, P. A. V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Goncalves, V., Martins, A. F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R. S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. & Vieira, V. (Eds.), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores. Principia, Oeiras, pp. 321 - 323.

Micael, J., Alves, M. J., Jones, M. B. & Costa, A. C. (2012) Diversity of shallow-water asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Azorean Archipelago. Marine Biodiversity Records, 5, e 49. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267211000534

Mortensen, T. (1943 a) A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III. 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidae, Strongylocentrotidae, Parasaleniidae, Echinometridae. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 446 pp.

Nobre, A. (1938) Equinodermes de Portugal. 3 rd Edition. Companhia Editora do Minho, Barcelos, 215 pp.

Pereira, M. (1997) Checklist of the littoral echinoderms of the Azores. Acoreana, 8 (3), 331 - 337.

Tortonese, E. (1965) Fauna D'Italia-Echinodermata. Edizioni Calderini, Bologna, 422 pp.