The Echinoid Directory

Pourtalesia wandeli Mortensen, 1905

• Common name: -
• Systematics: Pourtalesiidae, Holasteroida
• Distribution: North Atlantic
• Diet:
• Feeding type: Surface deposit feeder
• Habitat: -
• Depth range: Deep
• Maximum test size: 50 mm
• Behaviour: Partially burried

• Model

• Aboral, lateral and oral views

• MRI image slices

• Pourtalesia jeffreysi (a closely related species, taken from Mortensen 1907)

•  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=202

• Specimen ID: 1976.7.30.76-95 Natural History Museum, London
• Expedition: Discovery Investigations
• Collected in: 1976, 300 miles south of Iceland, Atlantic Ocean, 2646 - 2636 m
• Collected by: -
• Identified by: -
• Specimen test size: 3.3 cm length
• Scanning location: Berlin 7T
• Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
• MRI dataset resolution: (86 µm)³

• Agassiz, A. 1881. Report on the Echinoidea dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 3(9): 1-321.
• Mortensen, T. 1907. Echinoidea (Part II). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition 4(2).