Species Spatangus luetkeni A. Agassiz, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spatangus luetkeni Agassiz, A. 1872. Preliminary notice of a few species of Echini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 3(4): 55-58 [57] [as Spatangus Lütkeni].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 3168, Japan.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Between Glennie Is. and Wilson's Promontory, Vic to Cloudy Bay, Bruny Is., Tas; New Zealand, west Pacific Ocean and Japan. Depth range 29-999 m.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Tas. Coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic
• New Zealand

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, deposit feeder, inshore, temperate.

 

General References

Baker, A.N. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1990. Atelostomatid sea urchins from Australian and New Zealand waters (Echinoidea: Cassiduloida, Holasteroida, Spatangoida, Neolampadoida). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 282-316 figs 1-114

Mortensen, T. 1951. A Monograph of the Echinoidea. V (2). Spatangoida. II. Amphisternata II, Spatangidae, Loveniidae, Pericosmidae, Schizasteridae, Brissidae. Copenhagen : C.A. Reitzel 593 pp. 286 figs 64 pls.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023		11-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)