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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Lovenia elongata
(
Gray, 1825
)
Fig. 70
A–C.
Lovenia elongata
:
A. Agassiz, 1872
–74: 139, 575. Pl. XIX,
Figs 1–4
, Pl. XXV,
Fig. 3
. Pl. XXVI,
Fig. 35–36
. Pl. XXXVII,
Figs 18–19
, Pl. XXXVIII,
Figs 27–28
;
Alcock & Anderson, 1894
: 195
;
Döderlein, 1906
: 265
. Pl. XLVIII,
Fig. 5
;
Döderlein, 1910
: 248
;
Mortensen, 1951
: 97
–104. Pl. VII,
Figs 1–10
. Pl. VIII, Fig. I. Pl. XII,
Fig. 5
. Pl. XLVII,
Figs 10–23
;
H.L. Clark, 1923
: 404
;
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 230
;
Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976
: 252
;
Richmond, 1997
: 300
–301;
Schultz, 2010
: 419
, Fig. 789;
Filander & Griffiths, 2014
: 55
–56. Pl. II, Fig. I.
FIGURE 70.
Lovenia elongata
(SAMC-A28215).
A
. Map showing distribution.
B
. Aboral view of preserved specimen.
C
. Side view of preserved specimen.
Material examined.
SAMC-A28213; SAMC-A28215; SAMC-A28216; SAMC-A28219;
A27738
.
Identification.
Test delicate, elongated, conspicuous anterior notch. Apical disc subcentral, with four gonopores. Peristome kidney-shaped; labral plate narrow, elongated; sternal plates appearing naked, posteriorly tuberculated. Anterior ambulacrum somewhat indented, with pore-pairs differentiated; paired petals, wide at internal fasciole, narrowing towards distal ends. Primary tubercles large, with deep areoles. Periproct positioned at upper side of posterior invagination. Spines long, aboral ones particularly elongate and banded. Denuded test white, live specimen brown to reddish.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test length
85 mm
.
Global distribution.
Red Sea along East African coast to Mozambique and East coast of South Africa, and from south Japan to east coast of Australia, from littoral to
183 m
(
Döderlein 1910
;
Mortensen 1951
;
Schultz 2010
).
South African records:
Noted as a new South African record by
Filander & Griffiths (2014)
, but in fact previously recorded by
Döderlein (1910)
from off Umhloti River (Natal) at
155–183 m
. However, that historic record was not captured in
Filander & Griffiths (2014)
.
Remarks.
May be mistaken for
Eurypatagus parvituberculata
, however, differs in having an anterior notch and deep aboral areoles.