Spatangidae

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 : 34-35

Fam: Spatangidae

Spatangus purpureus ( O.F. Müller, 1776)

Material: 38 specimens; stations: T5, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, S7, S8, S15; depth: 3-30 m; substrates: sand. Distribution: Atlantic–Mediterranean.

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

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

Literature records for Montenegro: Karaman & Gamulin-Brida (1970), Milojević (1979, 1982).