Echinoderms from Southern New Zealand
Family Echinometridae — Evechinus Verrill, 1871 — Evechinus chloroticus (Valenciennes, 1846)
Family Echinometridae
Evechinus Verrill, 1871
Evechinus chloroticus (Valenciennes, 1846)
- Alert station 11, fragments of the test of a large individual.
- Also, Dusky Sound, littoral, one large test washed ashore.
The absence of the species from other stations is accountable by the fact of its being especially a reef-dwelling, eulittoral form. It is seldom found fossil for the same reason. It has not hitherto been taken from 50 fathoms (as at Alert station 11); but, as fragments alone were found there, the record should not be treated as evidence that the species lives in such deep water.