The Echinoid Directory

Abatus cavernosus (Verrill, 1876)

• Common name: -
• Systematics: Schizasteridae, Spatangoida
• Distribution: Kerguelen Islands
• Diet: -
• Feeding type: deposit feeder
  
• Habitat: -
• Depth range:
• Maximum test size: -
• Behaviour: infaunal

• Model

• Aboral, lateral and oral views

• MRI image slices

• Gonads, interior in oral view - Abatus cavernosus (from Agassiz 1881)
  
• Digestive tract, in oral view - Aceste annandalei (a related taxon, from Koehler 1914)
  
• Digestive tract, oral view - Ova canaliferus (a related taxon, from Koehler 1883)
  

• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=462

• Specimen ID: 5854, Zoologisches Museum Berlin.
• Collected in: 1898, Expedition: “Valdivia”, Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean, Gazelle-Bassin, Station 160
  
• Collected by: -
  
• Identified by: -
  
• Specimen test size: 2.8 cm length
  
• Scanning location: Berlin 7T
  
• Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
  
• MRI dataset resolution: (81 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.
• Koehler, R. 1883. Recherches sur les echinides des cotes de Provence. Annales du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille.
• Koehler, R. 1914. An account of the Echinoidea. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum 8 (1).