Spatangus purpureus Muller 1776 ...

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Echinoidea; Spatangoida; Spatangidae; Spatangus; Spatangus purpureus; Andreas; Ricardo; Iceland; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583509; https://zenodo.org/record/5583509

Erroneous— Spatangus purpureus Müller, 1776 Reports for the Azores: Spatangus purpureus M̹ller, 1776— Agassiz 1881: 171; Bell 1892: 165–167, pl. 16, fig. 10; Mortensen 1907: 123–128, pl. 2, figs. 8, 12, 14, 16, pl. 16, figs. 1–2, 5–10, 22, 24–25, 27, 29, 31–32, 34, 1927a: 328–329, fig. 190; Koehler 1914b: 279, 1921b: 129–130, figs. 89–90; H.L. Clark 1917: 234; Nobre 1938: 127–128, fig. 55; Harvey 1956: 67; Micael et al . 2012: 4. See: Mortensen (1951b: 10–14); Schultz (2006: 427–428, figs. 802–804). Occurrence: Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (Tortonese 1965), from Iceland and Scandinavia along European and African coasts to Senegal (Mortensen 1951b); possibly also occurring in Cape Verde and Angola (Mortensen 1951a). Depth: 0–900 m (Koehler 1914b). Habitat: soft substrates, preferably on coarse sand or gravel, in which it lies wholly buried where it feeds on all sorts of bottom particles and organisms (Mortensen 1927a). Larval stage: planktotrophic ( c. 3 weeks; Mortensen 1913). Remarks: Agassiz ... : Published as part of Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2019, The Echinoderm Fauna of the Azores (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4639 (1) on pages 174-175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4639.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3342161 ...