Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Clypeaster subdepressus (Gray)
Echinanthus subdepressus Gray, 1825:427. [For a synonymy, see Mortensen, 1948b: 112, and for a description of living habits, see Kier and Grant, 1965:28.]
Only one specimen (dead) was found of this species. It was located in water 30 meters deep in a sand trough on the reef just west of the dropoff on the transect. A thorough search was made in similar sand fields but no more specimens were found.
- bibliographic citation
- Kier, Porter M. 1975. "The echinoids of Carrie Bow Cay, Belize." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-45. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.206
