title: [Echinoderms (Echinodermata) of the Mexican Caribbean].
abstract: A systematic list of the echinoderms of the Mexican Caribbean based on museum specimens of the Colección Nacional de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. is presented. This list reveals an important echinoderm biodiversity in the Mexican Caribbean, where five of the six echinoderm classes are represented. A total of 178 echinoderm species is recorded, distributed in 113 genera, 51 families and 22 orders. 30 new records for the Mexican Caribbean are presents: Crínoidea (three), Asteroidea (two), Ophiuroidea (eleven), Echinoidea (one), Holothuroidea (thirteen).
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecologia de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. laguarda@icmyl.unam.mx
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laguarda-Figueras
authors.forename: Francisco A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Solis-Marín
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Durán-González
authors.forename: Cynthia Gust
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Ahearn
authors.forename: Blanca Estela
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Buitrón Sánchez
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Torres-Vega
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D017691:Caribbean Region; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004447:Echinodermata / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D008800:Mexico; D011156:Population Density; D013045:Species Specificity