Annotated checklist of Echinoderms from Maranhão and Piauí States, Northeastern Brazil

By

Gondim, Anne Isabelley
Dias, Thelma Lúcia Pereira
Christoffersen, Martin L.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013-6-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

9

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

510--518

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/9.3.510

 

Abstract

The present study provides the first checklist of echinoderm species that occurs in the States of Maranhão and Piauí, in Northeastern Brazil. The present compilation was produced based on an extensive bibliographical revision and on echinoderms deposited in the Invertebrate Collection Paulo Young, Federal University of Paraíba. Twenty-two species were listed, distributed into the classes Asteroidea (2 spp.), Ophiuroidea (16 spp.), Echinoidea (2 spp.), and Holothuroidea (2 spp.). The registered echinoderm diversity adds significantly to our faunistic knowledge, considering that no previous systematic compilation of echinoderms exists for this region.