The Echinoid Directory

Stomopneustes variolaris (Lamarck, 1816)

  • Common name: -
  • Systematics: Stomopneustidae, Stirodonta
  • Distribution: Indo-Pacific
  • Diet: Omnivorous, mainly algae, encrusting organisms
  • Feeding type: Grazer
  • Habitat: Rough surge zones of coral reefs
  • Depth range: Intertidal
  • Maximum test size: 110 mm
  • Behaviour: Epifaunal
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Technical information
  • Specimen ID: USNM E45930 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
  • Expedition: -
  • Collected in: 1963, NE of Pulo Pemju, Simeulue Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia, Indian Ocean
  • Collected by: L. Kelts
  • Identified by: C. Ahearn
  • Specimen test size: 2.2 cm
  • Scanning location: Berlin 7T
  • Scanning solution: Aqua dest. + Magnevist
  • MRI dataset resolution: (81 µm)3
Literature cited
  • Clark, H. L. 1912. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Pedinidae, Phymosomatidae, Stomopneustidae, Echinidae, Temnopleuridae, Strongylocentridae and Echinometridae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 34(4).