Published October 22, 2024 | Version v1
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Brissus latecarinatus

  • 1. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. cyclesamyiu @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6212 - 7339
  • 2. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. cyclesamyiu @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6212 - 7339 & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. brisinga @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0178 - 8237 & School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. cyclesamyiu @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6212 - 7339

Description

Brissus latecarinatus (Leske 1788)

FIGURE 18A–D

Comments

This species is abundant in Hong Kong waters, particularly in sheltered and coral habitats, where its skeleton can easily be found on the seabed. Denuded tests of this species have been collected from Xisha Island but the species is considered “scarce” in Southern China (Liao & Clark 1995). Chao (2000) documented this species from Taiwan.

Jespersen et al. (2004) reported three new species and two new genera of galeommatoid bivalves living commensally on the periproct of this species in Thailand.

Occurrence/Distribution

Hong Kong, 1–20 m.

Outside Hong Kong. Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island, Costa Rica (Pacific) to the Red Sea and Mauritius through the Malaysian Archipelago and the Marquesas and Andaman Islands, and in Australia from the northeast to Ningaloo Reef on the west coast to the Arabian Sea, East Africa. 0–45 m.

Notes

Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung & Mah, Christopher L., 2024, New Ecological Observations and Occurrence for Asteroidea and Echinoidea in Hong Kong, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5526 (1) on pages 28-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5526.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14021526

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Leske
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Spatangoida
Family
Brissidae
Genus
Brissus
Species
latecarinatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brissus latecarinatus (Leske, 1788) sec. Yiu & Mah, 2024

References

  • Liao, Y. & Clark, A. M. (1995) The Echinoderms of Southern China. Science Press, Beijing, 614 pp.
  • Chao, S. - M. (2000) The Irregular Sea Urchins (Echinodermata; Echinoidea) from Taiwan, with descriptions of six new records. Zoological Studies, 39 (3), 250 - 265.
  • Jespersen, A., Lutzen, J. & Nielsen, C. (2004) On three species and two new genera (Montacutella and Brachiomya) of galeommatoid bivalves from the irregular Sea Urchin Brissus latecarinatus with emphasis on their reproduction. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 243 (1 - 2), 3 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jcz. 2004.04.001