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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10.11646/zootaxa.4296.1.1
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Stylocidaris cingulata
Mortensen, 1932b
Fig. 17
A–C.
Stylocidaris cingulata
Mortensen, 1932b
: 162
–164. Pl. I,
Fig. 6
. Pl. XI,
Fig. 6
. Pl. XIII,
Figs 8–10
;
Schultz, 2011
: 925
, Figs
1565–1566
;
Filander & Griffiths, 2014
: 51
–52. Pl. I, Fig. G.
Material examined.
SAMC-A28217; SAMC-A28230.
Identification.
Test round, moderately thick, tubercles perforated. Apical disc dark green, star-shaped, tuberculated inner and outer edges; periproct conspicuously raised. Primary spines white-banded with pinkish tints; scrobicular spines loosely packed, whitish with a pinkish longitudinal stripe, stripe greenish towards base. Denuded test white with greenish tubercles and apical disc.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test diameter
13 mm
.
Global distribution.
Indian Ocean at
120–125 m
depth (
Mortensen 1932b
;
Schultz 2011
), extending into East coast of South Africa (
Filander & Griffiths 2014
).