Sphaerechinus granularis

• Main Authors: Madeira, Patrícia, Kroh, Andreas, Cordeiro, Ricardo, De, António M., Martins, Frias, Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Echinoidea; Camarodonta; Toxopneustidae; Sphaerechinus; Sphaerechinus granularis; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5583329; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4148D2120421FFA0FF33FDE9770211E4

Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816) (Fig. 26) Reports for the Azores: Echinus brevispinosus Risso, 1826 — $ Drouët 1861: 210; Barrois 1888: 31; Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816) — $ Agassiz 1863: 23, 1872: 159–160, 452–453, pl. 5a, fig. 7, pl. 6, figs. 16–17; p.p. $ Agassiz 1881: 106–107; $ Barrois 1888: 109–110; $ Simroth 1888: 231, 233; John 1889: 285; $ Koehler 1895a: 225, 1898: 23; Jackson 1912: 162; $ Nobre 1924: 89, 1930: 69; $ H.L. Clark 1925: 140–141; Mortensen 1927a: 309–312, figs. 178–180; $ Cadenat 1938: 367–368; Nobre 1938: 119–120, figs. 48, 49, 66; Mortensen 1943b: 515–526, figs. 242c, 309– 314, pl. 39, figs. 1–4, pl. 40, figs. 1–5, pl. 41, figs. 1–7, pl. 56, figs. 1, 8, 10, pl. 25, fig. 13; $ Chapman 1955: 399; Harvey 1956: 51, 66; $ Tortonese 1965: 323–327, figs. 151–154; $ Marques 1983: 5; Pereira 1997: 334; $ Maciel & Gonçalves 1998: 182; $ Morton et al . 1998: 150–151, figs. 3–3L1, 8–1L; Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 2002: 285; $ Wirtz & Debelius 2003: 258; $ Cardigos et al . 2005: 159; García-Diez et al . 2005: 50; Mironov 2006: 112; Schultz 2006: 266–267, figs. 509–513; Haddad & Barreiros 2008: 9, fig. 3d; Micael & Costa 2010: 323; $ Micael et al . 2010: 329; Madeira et al . 2011: 250, figs. 5B, 6B; Micael et al . 2012: 4. See: Mortensen (1943b); Schultz (2006). Occurrence: Mediterranean Sea and northeast Atlantic; from Channel Islands to the Gulf of Guinea (Mortensen 1943b), including the Azores (Marques 1983), Madeira (Alves et al . 2001), Selvagens (Pérez-Ruzafa et al . 2002), Canaries (Mortensen 1927b), Cape Verde (Agassiz 1881) and Gorringe and Dacia seamounts (Mironov 2006). Depth: 0–120 m (Chapman 1955, Koukouras et al . 2007); AZO: 0–60 m (Chapman 1955, Marques 1983). Habitat: generally found on hard substrates (AZO), but also on Posidonia and Zostera meadows, silty sand or maërl bottoms (Mortensen 1943b, Koukouras et al . 2007). Larval stage: planktotrophic (Emlet 1995). Fossil fauna: remains of this species, spines and test fragments were found in Pleistocene ...