The Echinoid Directory

Salenocidaris hastigera (Agassiz, 1869)

  • Common name: -
  • Systematics: Saleniidae, Salenioida
  • Distribution: Indian Ocean
  • Diet: Fine bottom material with foraminiferans
  • Feeding type: -
  • Habitat: Soft bottoms
  • Depth range: 100 - 2500 m
  • Maximum test size: -
  • Behaviour: Epifaunal
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Technical information
  • Specimen ID: 5816 Zoologisches Museum Berlin
  • Expedition: “Valdivia”
  • Collected in: 1898, Maledives, Indian Ocean, Station 219, 2253 m
  • Collected by: -
  • Identified by: -
  • Specimen test size: 1.5 cm
  • Scanning location: Berlin 7T
  • Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
  • MRI dataset resolution: (81 µm)3
Literature cited
  • Agassiz, A. & Clark, H. L. 1908. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Salenidae, Arbaciadae, Aspidodiadematidae, and Diadematidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34(2).