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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Echinocyamus scaber
de
Meijere, 1903
Fig. 61
A–D.
Echinocyamus scaber
:
Döderlein, 1906
: 235
. Pl. XXIX. 8–9;
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 167
;
Mortensen, 1948d
: 187
–188. Pl. XLVI,
Figs 34–36
;
Schultz, 2009
: 560
.
Echinocyamus
forma
subconicus
:
A.M. Clark, 1977
*: 145.
Material examined.
MBC-A
022771
; MBC-A
022882
; MBC-A
022883
; MBC-A
022884
; MBC-A
022885
; MBC- A
022886
.
Identification.
Test with oval outline, aborally lowly convex; apical disc inflated; petals well-developed, with maximum of five pore-pairs; glassy knobs higher than primary tubercles, covering aboral and oral sides; periproct with spines.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test length
8 mm
.
Global
distribution.
East
coast region of
South Africa
,
East Africa
to
Philippines
,
eastern Australia
and
Hawaii
; at
200–1886 m
(
Schultz 2009
).
Remarks.
Distinguished from
E. elegans
by the glassy tubercles scattered on test, shorter petals and number of pore-pairs; where
E. scaber
has a maximum of five pore-pairs and
E. elegans
eight.