The Echinoid Directory

Pourtalesia wandeli Mortensen, 1905

  • Common name: -
  • Systematics: Pourtalesiidae, Holasteroida
  • Distribution: North Atlantic
  • Diet:
  • Feeding type: Surface deposit feeder
  • Habitat: -
  • Depth range: Deep
  • Maximum test size: 50 mm
  • Behaviour: Partially burried
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Technical information
  • Specimen ID: 1976.7.30.76-95 Natural History Museum, London
  • Expedition: Discovery Investigations
  • Collected in: 1976, 300 miles south of Iceland, Atlantic Ocean, 2646 - 2636 m
  • Collected by: -
  • Identified by: -
  • Specimen test size: 3.3 cm length
  • Scanning location: Berlin 7T
  • Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
  • MRI dataset resolution: (86 µm)3
Literature cited
  • 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.
  • Mortensen, T. 1907. Echinoidea (Part II). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition 4(2).