The Echinoid Directory

Echinoneus cyclostomus Leske, 1778

  • Common name: English - Little burrowing urchin, Round-mouth bean urchin, French - Oursin cyclostome
  • Systematics: Echinoneoidae, Echinoneoida
  • Distribution: Indo-Pacific, Caribbean Sea, West Indies
  • Diet: Sediment, algal fragments, encrusting organisms, detritus
  • Feeding type: Selective deposit feeder
  • Habitat: Under coral boulders, on sand, in very coarse rubble
  • Depth range: Littoral - 570 m
  • Maximum test size: 50 mm length
  • Behaviour: Infaunal
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Technical information
  • Specimen ID: 1969.5.1.105 Natural History Museum, London
  • Expedition: -
  • Collected in: 1969, Aldabra, Indian Ocean
  • Collected by: J.D. Taylor
  • Identified by: J.D. Taylor
  • Specimen test size: 3.4 cm length
  • Scanning location: Berlin 7T
  • Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
  • MRI dataset resolution: (86 µm)3
Literature cited
  • Westergren, A. M. 1911. Echini - Echinoneus and Micropetalon. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition “Albatross”. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 39(2).