Check List 13(5): 597-603, doi: 10.15560/13.5.597
New record of the Six-holed Keyhole Urchin, Leodia sexiesperforata (Leske, 1778) (Clypeasteroida, Mellitidae), from the Brazilian coast, with an updated distribution map
Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar‡§, Valéria Fonsêca Vale§, Sávio Arcanjo Santos Nascimento Moraes§, Paulo Victor Nascimento Araújo§|, Fúlvio Aurélio Morais Freire§‡ Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil| Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Macau, Brazil
Corresponding author: Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar ( carlosce2002@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Sergio Nascimento Stampar © 2017 Carlos Eduardo Rocha Duarte Alencar, Valéria Fonsêca Vale, Sávio Arcanjo Santos Nascimento Moraes, Paulo Victor Nascimento Araújo, Fúlvio Aurélio Morais Freire. 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:
Alencar CERD, Vale VF, Moraes SASN, Araújo PVN, Freire FAM (2017) New record of the Six-holed Keyhole Urchin, Leodia sexiesperforata (Leske, 1778) (Clypeasteroida, Mellitidae), from the Brazilian coast, with an updated distribution map. Check List 13(5): 597-603. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.597 |  |
Abstract
A new record of Leodia sexiesperforata is reported from the coast of Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil. An updated distribution map based on data collected from literature, museums, and scientific collections is also presented. This new report fills a distribution gap on the coast of northeastern Brazil. Leodia sexiesperforata has a continuous range between the states of Ceará and Alagoas.
Keywords
Sand dollars; Echinoidea; distribution gap; Atlantic Tropical ecoregion