Acknowledgments To Dr. Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras for his critical review during the earliest
drafts of this chapter. Students of the Laboratory of Systematics and Ecology of Echinoderms at
UNAM made possible the creation of this chapter, together with the realization of the date extensive
review, figures and plates design, and data base reports: J.I. Alvarez-Rojas, J.A. Arriaga-Ochoa,
G. Bribiesca-Contreras, A.A. Caballero-Ochoa, N. Escandón-Flores, K. Evangelista-García,
P. Garcés-Solchaga, L.A. Hernández-Herrejón, Y.Q. Hernánez-Díaz, P.A. Juárez Espinoza,
C. Martín Cao-Romero, A. Martínez-Melo, T. Pineda-Enríquez, V. Tapia-Ramírez and M. ValdésDeAnda. BEBS thanks DGAPA-PAPIIT (UNAM, Mexico) project IN105012, and CONACyT
165826 for funding field trips. FASM thanks DGAPA-PAPIIT IN207011 for funding field trips.
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California. Licenciatura thesis, Fac Biol, Univ Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo,
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México
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drafts of this chapter. Students of the Laboratory of Systematics and Ecology of Echinoderms at
UNAM made possible the creation of this chapter, together with the realization of the date extensive
review, figures and plates design, and data base reports: J.I. Alvarez-Rojas, J.A. Arriaga-Ochoa,
G. Bribiesca-Contreras, A.A. Caballero-Ochoa, N. Escandón-Flores, K. Evangelista-García,
P. Garcés-Solchaga, L.A. Hernández-Herrejón, Y.Q. Hernánez-Díaz, P.A. Juárez Espinoza,
C. Martín Cao-Romero, A. Martínez-Melo, T. Pineda-Enríquez, V. Tapia-Ramírez and M. ValdésDeAnda. BEBS thanks DGAPA-PAPIIT (UNAM, Mexico) project IN105012, and CONACyT
165826 for funding field trips. FASM thanks DGAPA-PAPIIT IN207011 for funding field trips.
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Agassiz A (1878–1879) Reports of the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander
Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer ‘‘Blake’’. II.
Report on the Echini. Bull Mus Comp Zool 5:181–195
Agassiz A (1881a) Report of the echinoidea dredged by the H.M. Challenger during the year
1873–76. Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Challenger during the
years 1873–1876. Zoology 3:1–321
Agassiz A (1881b) Monographies d’Echinodermes vivants et fossiles. Monographies d’Echinodermes, Scutelles. Anatomie. Neuchàtel, Fr. Nos. 1–4:155
Agassiz A (1888) Characteristic deep-sea types—Echinoderms. Three cruises of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer ‘‘Blake’’ in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean
Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880, vol 2. The
Riverside Press, Cambrige, pp 84–127
Alencáster G, Buitron BE (1965) Fauna del Jurásico Superior de la región de Petlalcingo, Estado
de Puebla. Paleontol Mex 21:1–53
Amador-Cano G, Carpizo-Ituarte E, Cristino J (2006) Role of protein kinase C, G-protein coupled
receptors and calcium flux during metamorphosis of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus
purpuratus. Biol Bull 210:121–131
Anonymous (1994) Diario Oficial de la Federación. NOM-059-ECOL-1994. Determinación de
las especies y subespecies de flora y fauna silvestre terrestres y acuáticas en peligro de
extinción, amenazadas, raras y las sujetas a protección especial, y que establece
especificaciones para su protección. Diario Oficial de la Federación, México, vol 16. Mayo,
pp 2–59
Anzo-Martinez AD (1994) Ofiuroideos (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) de las playas Pedregosa y
Manzanillo, Municipio de Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, México. Licenciatura thesis, Fac Biol, Univ
Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México
Applegate SP, Buitron BE, Solis-Marin FA, Laguarda-Figueras A (2009) Two Lower Cretaceous
(Albian) fossil holothurians (Echinodermata) from Tepexi de Rodriguez, Puebla, Mexico.
Proc Biol Soc Wash 122:91–102
Arriaga-Ochoa JA (2007) Holoturoideos (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) del Golfo de
California. Licenciatura thesis, Fac Biol, Univ Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo,
Morelia, Michoacán, México
Arriaga-Ochoa JA (2010) Análisis Filogenético del género Lissothuria Verrill, 1867
(Dendrochirotida: Psolidae). Master thesis, Univ Nac Aut México, Mexico DF, Mexico
Bakus GJ (1974) Toxicity in holothurians: a geographical pattern. Biotropica 6:229–236
Barbosa-Ledesma IF, Solis-Marin FA, Laguarda-Figueras A (2000) New records for cidaroid
echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico. Rev Biol Trop 48:721
Benítez-Villalobos F (2000) Comunidad de equinodermos asociados a la zona arrecifal Puerto
Escondido Bahías de Huatulco, Oaxaca, México. Licenciatura thesis, Univ del Mar, Oaxaca,
México
2 The Echinoderms of Mexico
49