The Echinoid Directory
Contributed by Jenna Sullivan, May 2007
Echinoneus melitensis (Wright, 1864, p. 482)
[[=Amblypygus melitensis Wright, 1855, p. 482]]
| Diagnostic Features | Test elongated, depressed, border inflated; ambulacral areas narrow, unequal in width, the single ambulacrum narrowest; poriferous zones very narrow; pores a little more apart on the upper surface than at the border; base concave, arched in the anterio-posterior direction; mouth-opening nearly central, oblique, and angular; vent oblong, occupying the space between the peristome and the border. (Wright, 1855, p. 482) |
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| Distribution | Miocene of Malta |
| Type | Holotype: Natural History Museum E1580. |
| Classification and/or Status | Species of Echinoneus. |
| Remarks | Wright, T. 1864. On Fossil Echinidae of Malta. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London 20: 470-491, pls 21-22. |