Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa
Author
Filander, Zoleka
Author
Griffiths, Charles
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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Temnopleurus reevesii
(
Gray, 1855
)
Fig 38
A–B.
Temnopleurus reevesi
:
Döderlein, 1906
: 200
–201. Pl XXV,
Figs 3–6
. Pl. XLVI,
Fig. 7
;
Döderlein, 1910
: 247
;
H.L. Clark, 1923
: 381
;
H.L. Clark, 1924
:6
;
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 81
;
Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976
: 232
–233.
Temnopleurus reevesii
:
Mortensen, 1904
: 62
–64. Pl. VI,
Figs 3
,
10
,
12
. Pl. VII, fig. 37;
Schultz, 2010
: 172
, Figs 319–322.
Temnopleurus (Toreumatica) reevesii
:
Mortensen, 1943a
: 92
–94. Pl. III,
Figs. 1–2
,
12
,
16–20
.
Material examined.
MBC-A
022805
; MBC-A077818.
Identification.
Naked test greenish aborally, naked zones darker, white orally. Suranal plate conspicuously large, genital plates having ring of tubercles on inner parts; pits broad or shallow below primary spines, and sometimes angular at edges of plate. Spines appearing brown with green tints
Global maximum size.
Maximum test diameter
35 mm
.
Global distribution.
Japan to China Sea, through Malayan Archipelago to East Africa (
Clark & Rowe 1971
;
Schultz 2010
), South and East coast regions of South Africa at
5–565 m
depth (
Schultz 2010
).