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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Diadema savignyi
(
Audouin, 1809
)
Fig. 27
A–B.
Diadema savignyi
:
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 43
;
Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976
: 225
;
Coleman
et al.
, 1991
: 169
; Samyn, 2003: 201,
Fig.
2
g;
Schultz, 2010
: 102
, Figs 183–186.
Material examined.
MBC-A023308.
Identification.
Maximum of five interambulacra tubercles, in horizontal series. Blue iridescent lines along aboral plates, interambulacra with white spots; anal cone black. Spines black, banded in juveniles.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test diameter
100 mm
.
Global
distribution.
Kenya
(
Samyn
, 2003),
Red Sea
to
East
coast of
South Africa
, eastwards to
Easter Islands
, from
Japan
to
Australia
; littoral to
70 m
depth (
Schultz 2010
).
Remarks.
Unlike
Chaetodiadema africanum
,
aboral interambulacra area is not distinctively naked.