Echinodermata from Chindo Island, Korea

  • Shin, Sook (Department of Biology , Korea Sahmyook University)
  • Published : 1995.03.01

Abstract

Twenty-two species of Echinodermata collected from 11 localities in Chindo Island, Korea in September, 1990 and July, 1994 are recorded. One asteroids, Luidia quinaria, five ophiudoids such as Astrocladus coniferus coniferus, A.c.dofleini, Ophicatis affinis, Stegophiura sladeni, Amphipholis sp., four echinoids such as Temnopleurus toreumaticus, T. hardwicki, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, anthoicidaris crassispina and two holothuroids such as Protankyra bidentata, Stichopus japonicus are unrecorded species by this time in Chindo Is. One asteroid species, Asterina minor is newly recorded in Korea water and its taxonomic characteristics are redescribed.

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