Diadema antillarum
Diadema antillarum (Philippi, 1845)
- phylum Echinodermata
- class Echinoidea
- order Diadematoida
- family Diadematidae
- genus Diadema
Common Names
Long-spined sea urchin
Overview
Synonymised taxa
Centrechinus antillarum (Philippi, 1845) (transferred to Diadema)
Centrechinus setosus Jackson, 1912 (subjective junior synonym)
Cidaris (Diadema) antillarum Philippi, 1845 (transferred to Diadema)
References and links
Mortensen, T. (1940). A monograph of the Echinoidea 3(1). Aulodonta. Copenhagen. 370 pp., 196 figures, 77 pls, pages: 269-275.
Lessios, H. A. (1988). Population dynamics of Diadema antillarum (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) following mass mortality in Panamá. Marine Biology 99: 515-526.
Lessios, H. A., Robertson, D. R. & Cubit, J. D. (1984). Spread of Diadema mass mortality through the Caribbean. Science 226: 335-337.
Lessios, H.A., Kessing, B.D. & Pearse, J.S. (2001). Population structure and speciation in tropical seas: global phylogeography of the sea urchin Diadema. Evol. 55: 955-975.
Coppard, S. E. & Campbell, A. C. (2004). Taxonomic significance of spine morphology in the echinoid genera Diadema and Echinothrix. Invertebrate Biology, 123 (4), 357-371.
Coppard, S. E. & Campbell, A. C. (2006a). Taxonomic significance of test morphology in the echinoid genera Diadema Gray, 1825 and Echinothrix Peters 1853 (Echinodermata). Zoosystema 28(1), 93-112.
Coppard, S. E. & Campbell, A.C. (2006b). Systematic significance of tridentate pedicellariae in the echinoid genera Diadema and Echinothrix. Invertebrate Biology 125(4), 363-378.
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Ecology and Distribution
Distribution
In Panama this species been collected in the Caribbean from:
-Galeta Island (USNM E 26602, USNM E 26687, USNM E 28260, USNM E 38607; Centroid Latitude: 9.4067, Centroid Longitude: -79.8667)
Portobelo (USNM E 11402, USNM E 27448)
-Limon Bay, Colon (USNM 39448, USNM E 26606)
-3.5 miles North of the Piedras River (USNM E 18817)
-Miria Island, San Blas (USNM E 26686)
Taxonomy
- Centrechinus antillarum (Philippi, 1845) (synonym)
- Cidaris antillarum Philippi, 1845 (synonym)


