Check List 20(6): 1391-1396, doi: 10.15560/20.6.1391
New record of Rhynobrissus cuneus Cooke, 1957 (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) from the eastern Florida coast
Angela D. Witmer‡, Rich Mooi§‡ Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, United States of America§ California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, United States of America
Corresponding author: Angela D. Witmer ( angela_witmer@pba.edu ) Academic editor: Rafael B. de Moura © Angela D. Witmer, Rich Mooi. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Witmer AD, Mooi R (2024) New record of Rhynobrissus cuneus Cooke, 1957 (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) from the eastern Florida coast. Check List 20(6): 1391-1396. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.6.1391 |  |
Abstract
The Brissidae is a family of heart urchins that includes shallow‑water, infaunal species, some of which are rarely observed. One species, Rhynobrissus cuneus Cooke, 1957, has only been recorded from the western Atlantic off the coast of North Carolina, USA and in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico. This work identifies new records from the coast of Florida, USA, increasing our knowledge of this species’ geographic distribution.
Keywords
Atlantic, Brissidae, Caribbean, heart urchin, Irregularia