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H.L.
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, pl. 18 figs. 34.
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.—
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, 810, pl. 3 figs. 56, pl. 4 figs. 1, 4.—H.L.
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<bibRefCitation id="4C1109C6FFE9A748FBF6DE5DD78EFB1C" author="Clark, H. L." box="[1063,1216,1148,1167]" pageId="7" pageNumber="210" pagination="1 - 567" refId="ref7043" refString="Clark, H. L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1 - 567." type="journal article" year="1946">Clark, 1946: 139</bibRefCitation>
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.—A.M.
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, 67.—
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, pl.12 fig. 3.—A.M.
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE9A748FC86DEC4D70FFB6B" box="[855,1089,1253,1272]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="210">Tegulaster leptalacantha</emphasis>
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.—
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, off
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, S.A.M. A22559 (1).
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Other material.
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NE
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,
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(1)
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(1)
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I.,
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,
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(1)
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;
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<collectingCountry id="509734A7FFE9A748FC5BDFC1D0B8FA60" box="[906,1014,1504,1523]" name="Réunion" pageId="7" pageNumber="210">La Réunion</collectingCountry>
I.,
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.
<collectorName id="857511E1FFE9A748FB48DFC1D7ADFA60" box="[1177,1251,1504,1523]" pageId="7" pageNumber="210">Conand</collectorName>
,
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,
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(3)
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;
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(4)
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S
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,
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,
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11856 (1); E
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,
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,
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,
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(1)
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;
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,
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(2)
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;
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,
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,
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(1).
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE9A748FCE0DC52D0E4F91B" box="[817,938,1651,1672]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="210">Description</emphasis>
. Thick integument body cover; rays 5, discrete, medium length, wide base, tapered, blunt to narrowly rounded distally, elevated, steep sides, acute thin margin, up to
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=
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; single madreporite; abactinal gonopores; superambulacral and superactinal plates present.
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Abactinal: plates predominantly bare, thick, frequently with raised domes, generally closely imbricate, rarely spaced creating non-plated areas, upper ray plates irregular in size, form, arrangement, regular longitudinal series along sides of rays, lower ray plates indented proximally for papula; lacking distinct secondary plates; papulae large, single, irregular along upper ray, sometimes doubly papulate carinal plates mid-ray, up to 3 longitudinal series long each side of ray, up to 8 longitudinal series across mid-ray; disc variably bordered by 5 radial, 5 interradial plates; small subsacciform spinelets sometimes present perianally, on disc, around madreporite; long acicular spinelets sometimes on distal interradii; up to few small granular or subsacciform or conical spinelets on abactinal plates of small specimens (
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); glassy convexities on plates.
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Figure 5.
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(H.L.
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)
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(photos by C. Rowley). a, c, e,
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var
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, syntype, S.A.M. A22559 (R = 16 mm). a, abactinal surface (not cleared). c, tufts of acicular inferomarginal spinelets. e, oral, suboral, furrow, subambulacral and proximal actinal spines.
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, b, d, f, Sodwana Bay specimens. b, disc and proximal abactinal surface (not cleared; MRAC 1746; R = 17 mm). d, tufts of acicular inferomarginal spinelets (MRAC 1744; R = 18 mm). f, oral, suboral, furrow, subambulacral and proximal actinal spines (MRAC 1746; R = 17 mm)
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Margin: superomarginal plates of variable size and regularity as series, bare except small specimens with single, small, conical glassy spinelets; inferomarginal plates project, plates sometimes with constricted waist, distal tuft of up to 10 and more glassy, long, acicular subsacciform spinelets, up to
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long.
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NE
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I.,
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Is.,
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, E
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,
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FF42D99BD3BAFC5C" box="[147,244,954,975]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Remarks.</emphasis>
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observed only minor morphological differences between the
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and the two
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specimens on which he based his variety. Amongst these differences he noted that there were only five oral spines in the
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, but seven in the variety. The
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has eight oral spines, and eight and nine were observed on the specimen of the variety from Natal.
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erected the variety “mainly for zoogeographical reasons” since the
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locality for
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FD71DEA4D26EFB24" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Tegulaster leptalacantha</emphasis>
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is
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(NE
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). In
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I determined material from
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as
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FD26DEE1D26EFB62" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">T. leptalacantha</emphasis>
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, and judged that the variety was not justified. I confirm that opinion here. In
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I reassigned
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FED3DF36D144FAB8" box="[258,522,1302,1324]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Disasterina leptalacantha</emphasis>
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to
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FDF4DF37D1C1FAB8" box="[549,655,1302,1323]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Tegulaster</emphasis>
Livingsone, 1933
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. I confirm the morphological grounds for the reassignment here. The diagnostic characteristics of
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are: 5 discrete, high, tapered rays; thick integument evident over body; predominantly bare abactinal plates; abactinal plates frequently with rounded domes; actinal plates in oblique series; single long sacciform spines on each actinal interradial plate; inferomarginal plates with distal dense tufts of long, glassy, acicular subsacciform spinelets; superambulacral and superactinal plates present.
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FF68DC16D2F0F9DF" box="[185,446,1591,1612]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Tegulaster leptalacantha</emphasis>
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is distinguished from all other species of
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FF2BDC75D228F9FA" box="[250,358,1620,1641]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Tegulaster</emphasis>
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byhavingatuftoflongacicularsacciform spinelets on each inferomarginal plate; and is also distinguished in particular from
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FE83DCAED28FF930" box="[338,449,1678,1700]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">T. emburyi</emphasis>
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(
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species for
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FF6DDC8AD266F953" box="[188,296,1707,1728]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">Tegulaster</emphasis>
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;
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locality
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) by having single suboral and actinal interradial spines per plate, from
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FD10DCE8D044F94E" box="[705,778,1736,1758]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">T. alba</emphasis>
(H.L.
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)
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(
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locality Lord Howe I.) by having abactinal gonopores, and from
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<emphasis id="1AF4A825FFE7A746FE3ADD22D13BF88B" box="[491,629,1795,1816]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="212">T. praesignis</emphasis>
(
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)
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(typelocalityQueensland) byhavingbaresuperomarginal plates (see
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for these and other distinguishing characters).
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