Round Mouth Bean Urchin

This species has a worldwide distribution. In Panama it has been collected in the Caribbean from Galeta Island (USNM E 36326), Naranjo Abajo Island, Minas Bay (USNM E 14580), South of Maria Soto (USNM 1011510, USNM 1114973, USNM 1011509; Centroid Latitude: 9.5233, Centroid Longitude: -79.6867 depth 1 m) and off Miria Island San Blas (USNM E 40091; beneath rocks and coral).

Mortensen, T. (1948). A monograph of the Echinoidea 4(1). Holectypoida, Cassiduloida. Copenhagen. 371 pp; pages: 75-80.

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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212461

Echinoneus abruptus H.L. Clark, 1925 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus conformis Desor, 1842 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus crassus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus cruciatus Desor, 1842 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus elegans Desor, 1842 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus gibbosus Lamarck, 1816 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus minor Leske, 1778 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus orbicularis L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus ovalis Breynius, 1732 (pre-Linnean)
Echinoneus semilunaris Gmelin, 1778 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus serialis Desor, 1842 (subjective junior synonym)
Echinoneus ventricosus L. Agassiz & Desor, 1847 (subjective junior synonym)
Galerites echinonea Des Moulins, 1837 (subjective junior synonym)

Echinoneus cyclostomus Leske

Echinoneus cyclostomus Leske, 1778:173. [For a synonymy, see Mortensen, 1948a:75.]

This species was found only on the reef, where it lives in coarse sand under coral rock.

Colour in life: deep red unlike Aldabra specimens which are green (Humphreys, 1981). Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced; SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Marshall islands and Tuamotus (Clark, 1954); Lakshadweeo (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: from East Africa to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-120 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Western Atlantic and East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).