Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa
Author
Filander, Zoleka
Author
Griffiths, Charles
text
Zootaxa
2017
4296
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journal article
32399
10.11646/zootaxa.4296.1.1
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Eurypatagus parvituberculatus
(
H.L. Clark, 1924
)
Fig. 67
A–D.
Maretia parvituberculatus
H.L. Clark, 1924
: 13
–15. Pl IV;
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 227
.
Eurypatagus parvituberculatus
:
Mortensen, 1950
: 260
–262. Pl XVII, Figs I, 5–7. Pl XVIII,
Figs 9
,
11
. Pl XIX,
Figs 2
,
11
,
19
;
Schultz, 2009
: 733
, Figs
1248–1251
.
Material examined.
MBC-A
022343
; MBC-A077995; MBC-A077933; MBC-A077933; MBC-A077934; MBC- A077935; MBC-A077938; MBC-A077939; MBC-A077948; MBC-A077949; MBC-A077942; MBC-A077944; MBC-A077943; MBC-A077953; SAMC-A23706; MBC-A077950; MBC-A077937; MBC-A077936; MBC- A077947; MBC-A077952; MBC-A077945; MBC-A077946; MBC-A077951; MBC-A077940.
Identification.
Test outline ovoid, flat, without frontal notch. Apical disc anteriorly positioned. Peristome kidney-shaped. Aboral primary tubercles large, crenulated and perforated. Oral side flat, phyllodes well-developed, labral plate long, separated from sternal plates by adjacent ambulacral plates, sternal plates short, tubercles with large areoles laterally bordering naked space. Spines long. Red-brownish in color, with partially white spines.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test length
75 mm
.
Global distribution.
East coast of South Africa and Mauritius (
Mortensen 1950
;
Schultz 2009
), at
30–325 m
depth
Remarks.
Samples identified through this study show that species can be found in shallower waters of
30 m
than the previously thought
50 m
.