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Four denuded tests: WUSL/EI/85 and EI/86, from Kamburugamuwa and WUSL/EI/138 and EI/ 139 from Negombo 1,
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; one complete specimen, WUSL/EI/85 and three broken specimens.
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—Ethmolytic, with four large circular gonopores; madreporite expanding beyond posterior oculars; length 45% TL; situated anteriorly, 4043% TL away from anterior margin.
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posterior paired ambulacra, and
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—Aboral surface densely packed with primary tubercles; larger tubercles inside peripetalous fasciole, bordering ambulacrum III and scattered over posterior interambulacra, usually arranged in short, oblique bands; primary tubercles on oral side larger than aboral ones; primary tubercles in plastron much smaller than those of oral interambulacra 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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—Peripetalous fasciole well-developed, closely outlining petals; fasciole strongly indented between petals; subanal fasciole shield-shaped, wider than long; length 1618% TL, width 2227% TL; tapering to one point at posterior edge of plastron; upper part shallowly indented; usually four pore pairs enclosed on each side of subanal fasciole; anal branches extending aborally to points even with midpoint of periproct.
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—Kidney-shaped; situated anteriorly, c. 21% TL from anterior margin of test; about twice as wide as long; moderately large, length c. 6% TL, width c. 14% TL; from labrum pointed and overhanging peristome.
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—Vertically elongate; pointed aborally and orally; large, length 1011% TL, width 57% TL; region just oral to periproct concave.
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Observed occurrence in
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from sand patches between patch reefs in Kamburugamuwa, southern coast, and from
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at Negombo, western coast of Sri Lanka (
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<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FF52F95E722F9E6F" bold="true" box="[199,315,1770,1795]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Remarks.</emphasis>
As noted by one of us (R. Mooi, unpublished and
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), these specimens differ from the 10 known, extant congeners,
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de Ridder, 1984
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,
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Baker &amp; Rowe, 1990
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FE0CF88071E69E27" authority="H. L. Clark, 1925" authorityName="H. L. Clark" authorityYear="1925" box="[409,754,1842,1867]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="latissima">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FE0CF88071319E27" box="[409,549,1842,1867]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. latissima</emphasis>
H.L. Clark, 1925
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FD6AF88077199E27" authority="Verrill, 1867" authorityName="Verrill" authorityYear="1867" box="[767,1037,1842,1867]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="nobilis">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FD6AF88070669E27" box="[767,882,1842,1867]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. nobilis</emphasis>
Verrill, 1867
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FB8FF88076649E27" authority="(Mortensen, 1940)" baseAuthorityName="Mortensen" baseAuthorityYear="1940" box="[1050,1392,1843,1867]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="persica">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FB8FF88077879E27" box="[1050,1171,1844,1867]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. persica</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFB84B53FFE78938FB36F887767D9E27" author="Mortensen, T." box="[1187,1385,1843,1867]" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" pagination="55 - 112" refId="ref35321" refString="Mortensen, T. (1940) Echinoderms from the Iranian Gulf. Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Echinoidea. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran, Part 2, 55 - 112." type="book chapter" year="1940">Mortensen, 1940</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FAE8F88072D89E03" authority="(de Loriol, 1876)" baseAuthorityName="de Loriol" baseAuthorityYear="1876" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="robillardi">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FAE8F88072169E03" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. robillardi</emphasis>
(de Loriol, 1876)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FE4DF8E3703E9E03" authority="(Linnaeus, 1758)" baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[472,810,1878,1903]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="spatagus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FE4DF8E371769E02" box="[472,610,1879,1902]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. spatagus</emphasis>
(Linnaeus, 1758)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FCA3F8E377979E03" authority="(Lamarck, 1816)" baseAuthorityName="Lamarck" baseAuthorityYear="1816" box="[822,1155,1878,1903]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="sternalis">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FCA3F8E370A89E03" box="[822,956,1878,1903]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. sternalis</emphasis>
(Lamarck, 1816)
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FB2BF8E373CF9EFF" authority="(Bell, 1904)" baseAuthorityName="Bell" baseAuthorityYear="1904" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="townsendi">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FB2BF8E376419E03" box="[1214,1365,1878,1903]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. townsendi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFB84B53FFE78938FAF0F8E273C79EFF" author="Herdman, W. A. &amp; Herdman, J. B. &amp; Bell, F. J." pageId="77" pageNumber="78" pagination="137 - 150" refId="ref34833" refString="Herdman, W. A., Herdman, J. B. &amp; Bell, F. J. (1904) Report on the Echinoderma collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. In: Herdman, W. A. (Ed.), Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the Gulf of Mannar. The Royal Society, London, pp. 137 - 150." type="book chapter" year="1904">Bell, 1904</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFE7893BFF52F82A73FB999B" blockId="77.[151,1437,726,2011]" lastBlockId="78.[151,1436,151,248]" lastPageId="78" lastPageNumber="79" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">
The new species lacks a notch in ambulacrum III, a condition that strongly differs from that in the following species:
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FF6EF870729C9EB7" authorityName="de Ridder" authorityYear="1984" box="[251,392,1988,2011]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="angustus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FF6EF870729C9EB7" box="[251,392,1988,2011]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. angustus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FE0FF870717C9EB7" authorityName="Baker &amp; Rowe" authorityYear="1990" box="[410,616,1986,2011]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="kermadecensis">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FE0FF870717C9EB7" box="[410,616,1986,2011]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. kermadecensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FDEFF870701D9EB7" authorityName="H. L. Clark" authorityYear="1925" box="[634,777,1986,2011]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="latissima">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FDEFF870701D9EB7" box="[634,777,1986,2011]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. latissima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FC8EF87070839EB7" baseAuthorityName="Mortensen" baseAuthorityYear="1940" box="[795,919,1988,2011]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="persica">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FC8EF87070839EB7" box="[795,919,1988,2011]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. persica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE78938FC48F87077659EB7" baseAuthorityName="de Loriol" baseAuthorityYear="1876" box="[989,1137,1986,2011]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="77" pageNumber="78" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="robillardi">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE78938FC48F87077659EB7" box="[989,1137,1986,2011]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">M. robillardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The lack of coalescence between the aboralmost regions of the posterior paired petals is very different from the situation seen in
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE4893BFAE8FF2D728899B9" italics="true" pageId="78" pageNumber="79">
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE4893BFAE8FF2D73EF99B9" baseAuthorityName="Lamarck" baseAuthorityYear="1816" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="78" pageNumber="79" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="sternalis">M. sternalis</taxonomicName>
.
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE4893BFE90FF09728899B9" baseAuthorityName="Bell" baseAuthorityYear="1904" box="[261,412,188,213]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="78" pageNumber="79" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="townsendi">M. townsendi</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
differs in having a subcentral position of the apical system, and much lower anterior end of the test.
</paragraph>
<caption id="DF56662AFFE4893BFF02F83376639EF1" box="[151,1399,1927,1949]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2617591/files/figure.png" pageId="78" pageNumber="79" startId="78.[151,250,1927,1949]" targetBox="[151,1436,301,1906]" targetPageId="78">
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFE4893BFF02F83376639EF1" blockId="78.[151,1399,1927,1949]" box="[151,1399,1927,1949]" pageId="78" pageNumber="79">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE4893BFF02F83372349EF0" bold="true" box="[151,288,1927,1949]" pageId="78" pageNumber="79">FIGURE 68.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE4893BFEB0F83372609EF1" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[293,372,1927,1949]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="78" pageNumber="79" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE4893BFEB0F83372609EF1" box="[293,372,1927,1949]" italics="true" pageId="78" pageNumber="79">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (WUSL/EI/85): A, aboral view; B, oral view; C, lateral view; D, anterior view; E, posterior view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="DF56662AFFE5893AFF02F8A871DF9E5E" box="[151,715,1820,1842]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2617593/files/figure.png" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" startId="79.[151,250,1820,1842]" targetBox="[151,1436,193,1798]" targetPageId="79">
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFE5893AFF02F8A871DF9E5E" blockId="79.[151,715,1820,1842]" box="[151,715,1820,1842]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE5893AFF02F8A872349E5D" bold="true" box="[151,288,1820,1842]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">FIGURE 69.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFE5893AFEB0F8A872609E5E" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[293,372,1820,1842]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFE5893AFEB0F8A872609E5E" box="[293,372,1820,1842]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (WUSL/EI/138), aboral view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="DF56662AFFFA8925FF02F8A870F39E5E" box="[151,999,1820,1842]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2617595/files/figure.png" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" startId="80.[151,250,1820,1842]" targetBox="[151,1436,193,1798]" targetPageId="80">
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFFA8925FF02F8A870F39E5E" blockId="80.[151,999,1820,1842]" box="[151,999,1820,1842]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFA8925FF02F8A8720B9E5D" bold="true" box="[151,287,1820,1842]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">FIGURE 70.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFFA8925FEB0F8A872609E5E" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[293,372,1820,1842]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFA8925FEB0F8A872609E5E" box="[293,372,1820,1842]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (WUSL/EI/85): A, sternal view; B, subanal fasciole view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="DF56662AFFFB8924FF02F8E170589E07" box="[151,844,1877,1899]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2617597/files/figure.png" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" startId="81.[151,250,1877,1899]" targetBox="[182,1426,219,1839]" targetPageId="81">
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFFB8924FF02F8E170589E07" blockId="81.[151,844,1877,1899]" box="[151,844,1877,1899]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFB8924FF02F8E1720B9E06" bold="true" box="[151,287,1877,1899]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">FIGURE 71.</emphasis>
Distribution map of
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFFB8924FE61F8E171579E07" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[500,579,1877,1899]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFB8924FE61F8E171579E07" box="[500,579,1877,1899]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. recorded in this study.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFFB8924FF52F82D70A69EB8" blockId="81.[151,1436,1944,2005]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">
Forms that lack the anterior notch, lack the coalescence, and have the apical system at least somewhat anterior, as in the new species, include
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFFB8924FE7CF80971719EB9" authorityName="H. L. Clark" authorityYear="1917" box="[489,613,1980,2005]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="dicrana">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFB8924FE7CF80971719EB9" box="[489,613,1980,2005]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">M. dicrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFFB8924FDE1F80971F19EB9" authorityName="Verrill" authorityYear="1867" box="[628,741,1980,2005]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="nobilis">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFB8924FDE1F80971F19EB9" box="[628,741,1980,2005]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">M. nobilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFFB8924FCB7F80970B89EB8" baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[802,940,1981,2004]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="spatagus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFFB8924FCB7F80970B89EB8" box="[802,940,1981,2004]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">M. spatagus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFF88927FF52FF2D717A9808" blockId="82.[151,1436,151,645]" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FF52FF2D722D99DC" authorityName="Verrill" authorityYear="1867" box="[199,313,151,176]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="nobilis">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FF52FF2D722D99DC" box="[199,313,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">M. nobilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the only
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FE39FF23711799DC" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[428,515,151,176]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FE39FF23711799DC" box="[428,515,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
known from the Americas, has small petals relative to its congeners. In addition, the periproct in
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FEDEFF0872B699B9" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[331,418,188,213]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FEDEFF0872B699B9" box="[331,418,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
n. sp. is directed downwards and is not fully visible from the aboral side. This is not only unlike
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FF70FF55724C9994" authorityName="Verrill" authorityYear="1867" box="[229,344,223,248]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="nobilis">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FF70FF55724C9994" box="[229,344,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">M. nobilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, it is not like
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FE62FF5571969994" baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[503,642,225,248]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="spatagus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FE62FF5571969994" box="[503,642,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">M. spatagus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
either, which has a more vertical posterior region with at least part of the periproct visible in aboral view. This is also true for
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FC87FEB1709B9871" authorityName="H. L. Clark" authorityYear="1917" box="[786,911,260,285]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="dicrana">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FC87FEB1709B9871" box="[786,911,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">M. dicrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which is distinguished from all other
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FAD0FEB076889871" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[1349,1436,260,285]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FAD0FEB076889871" box="[1349,1436,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by its peculiar double point along the sternum just adoral to the subanal fasciole (Mooi, unpubl. data). Therefore, the specimens are very unlike
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FE7EFEF971739809" authorityName="H. L. Clark" authorityYear="1917" box="[491,615,332,357]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="dicrana">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FE7EFEF971739809" box="[491,615,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">M. dicrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9636A2FFF88927FF52FEDB77E09B74" blockId="82.[151,1436,151,645]" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">
The Sri Lankan specimens of this new form have a very distinctive, concave region below the periproct which has not been noted in other
<taxonomicName id="4C294D21FFF88927FE58FE20713098C1" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1855" box="[461,548,404,429]" class="Echinoidea" family="Brissidae" genus="Metalia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spatangoida" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95DEAB0FFF88927FE58FE20713098C1" box="[461,548,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="82" pageNumber="83">Metalia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species (
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), although it does occur to some degree in some of the species (Mooi, unpubl. data). As discovered by
<bibRefCitation id="EFB84B53FFF88927FDC1FE03705D98BC" author="Askin, R. &amp; Mooi, R." box="[596,841,439,464]" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="7" refId="ref33641" refString="Askin, R. &amp; Mooi, R. (2017) The heart of the problem: Phylogenetic systematics of burrowing sea urchins in the genus Metalia (Echinoidea: Spatangoida). Integrative and Comparative Biology, 57 (Supplement 1), e 7." type="journal article" year="2017">Askin &amp; Mooi (2017)</bibRefCitation>
using molecular techniques, it would appear that this is a new species. It was depicted by van
<bibRefCitation id="EFB84B53FFF88927FDFCFE6870479898" author="van Noordenburg, H." box="[617,851,476,501]" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" refId="ref36274" refString="van Noordenburg, H. (2008) Sea Urchins of the Philippines. Part I. The Irregulars. Artificial Harmonics, Utrecht, 153 pp." type="book" year="2008">Noordenburg (2008)</bibRefCitation>
, but remains unnamed pending further work on the abundant material at the
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Variation in the path of the peripetalous fasciole was noted in collected specimens. WUSL/IE/E85 shows shallow aborally-curved segments in interambulacrum 4, and one sharply defined indentation in interambulacrum 1 (
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, A).
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