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H.L.
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H.L.
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, pl. 16 figs. 34.—A.M.
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(part).—A.M.
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(part).
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.
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Small, subpentagonal,
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; rays 5, discrete, wide at base, short, rounded distally; low convex abactinally, flat actinally, sides not steep, margin acute; body integument not evident; single inconspicuous madreporite; not fissiparous; gonopores not seen; glassy convexities on plates; presence or absence of superambulacral and superactinal plates unknown (small
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Figure 1.
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(photos by L. Altoff and A. Falconer). Holotype, WAM Z37278 (R = 13 mm; all except b); paratype WAM Z37279 (R = 8 mm; cleared; b only). a, abactinal surface (one ray dissected off; abnormal digitiform growth arrowed). b, disc not discretely defined; few proximal carinal plates with single papula arrowed. c, abactinal pedicellariae (arrowed) and spinelets on upper side of ray. d, section through cleared ray showing superambulacral plates (right arrow) and superactinal plates (left arrow). e, actinal surface with actinal plates in longitudinal series. f, oral, suboral, furrow, subambulacral and proximal actinal spines.
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Figure 2.
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H.L.
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(photos by C. Rowley). Holotype, S.A.M. A22559 (R = 6 mm). a, abactinal surface, insert showing spinelets. b, carinal series of doubly papulate plates and spinelets. c, actinal surface with actinal plates in longitudinal series. d, oral, suboral, furrow, subambualcral and proximal actinal spines.
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Abactinal: disc not distinctly bordered; plates imbricate, projecting proximal edge frequently tabular, plates not notched, slight proximal indentation for papula sometimes present, papulae emerge from under projecting proximal raised edge of plates; doubly papulate carinal series of plates along most of upper ray, rare secondary plates; papulae large, single per papular space, rarely 2; 8 longitudinal series of papulae across mid ray; small subsacciform to conical, pointed glassy spinelets, up to about
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long, spread over plates, up to 20 per plate.
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.
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, East London,
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. For
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I used a specimen from
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Agulhas, registered to the Natural History Museum in London as
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(
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1975.10.29.47), as evidence for remarks on
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. The subsequent availability of the
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of
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEDA74CFBB6DD1AD7B1F8C3" box="[1127,1279,1851,1872]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">A. gracilispina</emphasis>
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for examination in this work has made it possible for me to recognize that the
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Agulhas specimen is not conspecific. The
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Agulhas specimen is similar in form, but is distinguished (
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) by: disc distinctly bordered; conspicuous madreporite; short, blunt, digitiform to subgranular abactinal spinelets; 9 oral spines in series tapering evenly from long to very short, spines slightly swollen distally; up to 3 actinal spines mid ray. This specimen is described below as a new species.
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<paragraph id="283F7437FFEAA74BFF63DB93D2CBFDE4" blockId="4.[140,771,229,1217]" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">
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referred “with considerable doubt” a specimen (
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=
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) in the
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Museum from False Bay (
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) to
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEAA74BFEBADBCCD146FD92" box="[363,520,492,514]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">A. gracilispina</emphasis>
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. His grounds for doubt were: dorsal spinelets blunt; distinct madreporite; 23 stout actinal interradial spines. These characters are consistent with those of the
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Agulhas specimen, described below as a new species of
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEAA74BFEF6D843D231FDE4" box="[295,383,610,631]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">Asterina</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="283F7437FFEAA74BFF63D85ED129FC67" blockId="4.[140,771,229,1217]" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">
A.M.
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reported on
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from
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determined as
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEAA74BFEBBD8BDD14DFD22" box="[362,515,668,689]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">A. gracilispina</emphasis>
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, but her notes indicate to me that there were two species. Most of the specimens were in poor condition, but details of spine number for the Mossel Bay specimen (
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) are compatible with the
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of
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEAA74BFD3DD8D5D246FCB5" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">A. gracilispina</emphasis>
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. Notes that the Algoa Bay specimen (
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=
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) had 35 actinal spines per plate and an inconspicuous madreporite indicate that it is also probably
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. But notes of 9 oral spines and only 23 actinal spines for the
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Agulhas specimen (
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=
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; registered to the NHM) confirm the observations discussed above that it is not conspecific with
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and it is the type for the new species referred to above and described below.
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H.L.
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was uncertain about generic assignment for this species, and chose
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. Currently there is inadequate data to confirm or reassign. However, the atypical arrangement and form of the oral spines is similar to that in
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEAA74BFF5DDE51D249FB16" box="[140,263,1136,1157]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">Parvulastra</emphasis>
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. If superambulacral and superactinal plates are present, then the species would be more appropriately assigned to
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFEAA74BFE43DE8AD143FB53" box="[402,525,1195,1216]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="207">Parvulastra</emphasis>
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.
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