Echinoderms
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 750 echinoderm specimens. These date from the late 1800s to the present.
This collection contains around 600 dried specimens and 150 specimens in spirit. Most of these represent coastal and deep-water Scottish species, although a few tropical and temperate species from around the world are also present. Most of the dried specimens are starfish (Asteroidea). The rest are sea urchins, sand dollars and heart urchins (Echinoidea), with a small number of sea lilies and feather stars (Crinoidea) and brittle stars and basket stars (Ophiuroidea). The wet specimens all derive from the above classes and also include sea cucumbers (Holothurioidea). The scientific strength of the collection is the number of deep-water specimens from off the west coast of Scotland, collected by the research vessels RRS Challenger and Walther Herwig. These come from the Rockall Through, Porcupine Bank, Anton Dohrn Seamount and similar areas.
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