Deep-Sea name details
original description
(of ) Gray J.E. 1851. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Spatangidae in the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2nd Series 7, 130-134., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13787716 page(s): 133 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [details]
From other sources
Description Also distributed in W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope, deposit feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean. Depth range 10-1000 (?2000) m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Remark Syntypes whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: Isle of Luzon, Philippines (Rowe & Gates, 1995).The holotype cannot now be traced in the British Museum collections (Clark & Rowe, 1971)
B. luzonica in Clark & Rowe (1971). [details]
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