Panamanian part of the North Pacific Ocean

In Panama this species is common in both the Gulf of Panama and Gulf of Chiriqui in the eastern Pacific. It can be found under and between rocks and corals, and on the dead sides of Pocillopra spp. reefs (Lessios, 2005). This species has been collected from San Jose Rock (USNM E 14588), Tabogilla Island (USNM E 14578) and Venado Island (USNM E 14577), Gulf of Panama, and from Uva Reef in the Gulf of Chiriqui.

Mortensen, T. (1940). A monograph of the Echinoidea 3(1). Aulodonta. Copenhagen. 370 pp., 196 figures, 77 pls; pages: 275-277.

Lessios, H.A., Kessing, B.D. & Pearse, J.S. 2001. Population structure and speciation in tropical seas: global phylogeography of the sea urchin Diadema. Evol. 55: 955-975.

Lessios, H. A. (2005). Echinoids of the Pacific Waters of Panama: Status of knowledge and new records. Rev. Biol. Tropical 53 (sup. 3):147-170.

Coppard, S. E. & Campbell, A. C. (2004). Taxonomic significance of spine morphology in the echinoid genera Diadema and Echinothrix. Invertebrate Biology, 123 (4), 357-371.

Coppard, S. E. & Campbell, A. C. (2006a). Taxonomic significance of test morphology in the echinoid genera Diadema Gray, 1825 and Echinothrix Peters 1853 (Echinodermata). Zoosystema 28(1), 93-112.

Coppard, S. E. & Campbell, A.C. (2006b). Systematic significance of tridentate pedicellariae in the echinoid genera Diadema and Echinothrix. Invertebrate Biology 125(4), 363-378.

GenBank

The Echinoid Directory

World Echinoidea Database

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:513223

Centrechinus mexicanus (A. Agassiz, 1863) (unaccepted combination)
Diadema mexicana A. Agassiz, 1863 (unjustified emendation)

Depth range based on 6 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 6 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 12 - 624
  Temperature range (°C): 6.749 - 26.357
  Nitrate (umol/L): 3.172 - 39.707
  Salinity (PPS): 32.593 - 34.632
  Oxygen (ml/l): 0.171 - 4.432
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.333 - 3.255
  Silicate (umol/l): 3.167 - 72.834

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 12 - 624

Temperature range (°C): 6.749 - 26.357

Nitrate (umol/L): 3.172 - 39.707

Salinity (PPS): 32.593 - 34.632

Oxygen (ml/l): 0.171 - 4.432

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.333 - 3.255

Silicate (umol/l): 3.167 - 72.834
 
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