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Deep-Sea Echinoderms of New Zealand

Order Clypeasteroida

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Order Clypeasteroida

Family Clypeasteridae

Clypeaster Lamarck, 1801

Clypeaster australasiae (Gray)

  • Echinanthus australasiae Gray 1851. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 34.

Material Examined: Three specimens, two of which possibly are from beyond the continental shelf: Station N.P.8, 40–125 fathoms, Bay of Plenty, 2 specimens; 60–100 fathoms, N.P.9, Bay of Plenty, 1 specimen.

All material so far recorded from New Zealand has been from this area (see Fell, 1949, p. 345).

Family Laganidae

Peronella Gray, 1855

Peronella hinemoae Mortensen

  • Mortensen, Th., 1921. Vid. Medd. dansk. naturh. For., 73.

Material Examined: Seven specimens from the same two stations, N.P.8 and N.P.9 given under Clypeaster australasiae immediately above.