Scroll down (or click on a Class link) to view the wide variety of echinoderm
species collected during the Charleston Bump 2003 expedition.
Click on a photo to examine the full photo gallery for each species.

Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea (Sea Stars)
Class Ophiuroidea (Brittle Stars and Basket Star)
Class Echinoidea (Sea Urchins)
Class Crinoidea (Feather Stars)
Class Holothuroidea (Sea Cucumber)

Sea Stars, or Starfish (Class Asteroidea)
All species from Charleston Bump habitat: 1300 to 1800 ft. water depth
Tethyaster grandis Peltaster placenta Mediaster pedicellaris "Tosia" parva
Tamaria halperni Tamaria passiflora Lophaster cf. furcifer Henricia downeyae
(unidentified) Sclerasterias sp. Coronaster briareus Novodinia antillensis
top Basket Star and Brittle Stars (Class Ophiuroidea)
Charleston Bump habitat: 1300 to 1800 ft. water depth
Astracme sp. (unidentified) Ophiolepis gemma
Shelf-Edge habitat, near to the Charleston Bump: 150 to 300 ft. water depth
Ophioderma rubicundum Ophiothrix angulata Asteroporpa annulata top
Sea Urchins (Class Echinoidea)
Charleston Bump habitat: 1300 to 1800 ft. water depth
Echinus tylodes Cidaris rugosa
top
Crinoids (Class Crinoidea)
Charleston Bump habitat: 1300 to 1800 ft. water depth Comactinia meridionalis (unidentified species #2) top Sea Cucumber (Class Holothuroidea) Charleston Bump habitat: 1300 to 1800 ft. water depth
			Amphigymnas bahamensis top Return to Oceanica Homepage

Acknowledgements:

Christopher Mah, Ph.D. (U. of Illinois; currently at Smithsonian Institution)
- assistance with starfish identifications
David Pawson, Ph.D. (Smithsonian Institution) - holothurian identification
Charles Messing, Ph.D. (Nova Southeastern University) - crinoid identifications
Susan DeVictor (Southeast Regional Taxonomic Center) - review, edits,
and contributions of photographs

Photo credits:

Oceanica photos by Leslie Sautter
Southeast Regional Taxonomic Center (SERTC) photos by Susan DeVictor
Gulf Coast Research Lab (GCRL) photos by Jerry McLelland

References:

(1) Clark, A.M. & M.E. Downey. 1992.
Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall, London. 794 pp.

(2) Hendler, G., J.E. Miller, D.L. Pawson & P.M. Kier. 1995.
Sea stars, sea urchins and allies: Echinoderms of Florida
and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,
D.C. 390 pp.

(3) Ruppert, E.E., R.S. Fox and R.D. Barnes. 2004.
Invertebrate Zoology, 7th Ed. Thompson/Brooks/Cole. 989 pp.



The Charleston Bump 2003 research cruise was supported by NOAA Ocean Exploration

This taxonomic gallery was developed with support from the College of Charleston's
Dept. of Geology and Environmental Geolsciences, the Univ. of South Carolina's
Marine Science Program, and the NOAA Coastal Services Center.
NOAA Coastal Services Center is a generous supporter of Project Oceanica.

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