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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1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4296.1.1
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Astropyga radiata
(
Leske, 1778
)
Fig. 25
A–C.
FIGURE 25.
Astropyga radiata
.
A
. Map showing distribution.
B
. Live adult (KwaZulu-Natal).
C
. Oral view of preserved specimen (SAMC-A28211).
Astropyga radiata
: Alcock & Anderson, 1984: 192
;
Mortensen, 1904
: 18
–22. Pl. III,
Figs 15
,
19
. Pl. IV,
Figs 9
,
17
. Pl. V.
Fig. 27
;
H.L. Clark, 1923
: 373
;
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 46
–47;
Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976
: 224
;
Richmond, 1997
: 296
; Samyn, 2003: 201,
Figs 2
F, F’, F”;
Schultz, 2010
: 88
, Figs 157–161;
Filander & Griffiths, 2014
: 52
. Pl. I, Fig. I.
Material examined.
MBC-A
022214
; SAMC-A28211.
Identification.
Test red, with v-shaped, naked interambulacra zones aborally, with dark spots, shinning blue in live animal; pore-pairs almost in contact orally, distant aborally; madreporite extending into interambulacra.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test diameter
118 mm
.
Global distribution.
East coast region of South Africa (
Filander & Griffiths 2014
). Kenya (Samyn 2003), Zanzibar to Queensland, Australia, and Hawaiian Islands; littoral to
60 m
depth (
Schultz 2010
).
Remarks.
Spines of adults and juveniles vary in colour, juvenile spines banded white and purplish-brown and those of adults a uniform color.