An occurence records database of Irregular Echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on echinoderms in Mexico began in the late nineteenth century. We present a dataset that includes the taxonomic and geographic information of irregular echinoids from Mexico, housed in four collections: 1) Colección Nacional de Equinodermos "Ma. Elena Caso Muñoz" from the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); 2) Invertebrate Zoology Collection, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States of America (USA); 3) Invertebrate Collection, Museum of Comparative Zoology, University of Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and 4) Invertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

New information

A total of six orders, 17 families, 35 genera and 68

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Melo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5018108 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature