The Echinoid Directory

Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816)

• Common name: -
• Systematics: Stomopneustidae, Stirodonta
• Distribution: Indo-Pacific
• Diet: Omnivorous, mainly algae, encrusting organisms
• Feeding type: Grazer
• Habitat: Rough surge zones of coral reefs
• Depth range: Intertidal
• Maximum test size: 110 mm
• Behaviour: Epifaunal

• Model

• Aboral, lateral and oral views

• MRI image slices

• Internal anatomy

• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=1560

• Specimen ID: USNM E45930 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
• Expedition: -
• Collected in: 1963, NE of Pulo Pemju, Simeulue Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia, Indian Ocean
• Collected by: L. Kelts
• Identified by: C. Ahearn
• Specimen test size: 2.2 cm
• Scanning location: Berlin 7T
• Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
• MRI dataset resolution: (81 µm)³

• Clark, H. L. 1912. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentridae and Echinometridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34(4).