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, pl. 79.
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(synonymy &amp; records before 1999).
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<taxonomicName id="4C274D2EFF99FF83D0A18FFDC441BAB7" authority="Samyn &amp; Massin, 2003: 2500" authorityName="Samyn &amp; Massin" authorityPageNumber="2500" authorityYear="2003" box="[151,850,728,751]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Aspidochirotida" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="hilla" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
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, fig. 5 AE, 11C, 12F (records after 1999).
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, EcHh 542
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.
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locality
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(
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.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFF99FF83D0A18935C50DBC71" box="[151,542,1040,1065]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Previous southern African record</emphasis>
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and east coast of
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.
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,
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,
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,
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7615, scuba-gear,
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25.vii.
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, 17 m
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,
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,
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A27932,
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,
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,
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<collectingDate id="EFDDE985FF99FF83D2B189FDC415BCAA" box="[647,774,1240,1266]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" value="1979-04-26">26 iv 1979</collectingDate>
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, rock pool,
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&amp;
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,
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(juvenile).
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Sodwana specimen (
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27931) 45x
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, strongly contracted, eviscerated and somewhat mutilated due to previous dissection. Colour, in alcohol, greyish with pale areas around podia. Mouth sub-ventral, collar absent; anus terminal, no special anal papillae. Podia scattered, better developed ventrally with some indication here of their arrangement in rows, few and reduced dorsally. Tentacle ampullae short (&lt;0.5 mm). Polian vesicle single, elongate; stone canal straight, madreporite spherical. Cuvierian tubules present. Body wall table discs
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(mean
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), smooth, squarish to roundish, with a single series (or only four) marginal holes; spire
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high (mean
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), with single cross-bar, terminating in ring of few short spines. Buttons (
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) smooth,
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), regular, with 35 pairs of large holes. Ventral podial deposits reduced tables, buttons
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), large multilocular perforated plates (
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),
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x
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, and end-plates; buttons often asymmetrical and/or reduced to a single series of holes. Table disc of dorsal podia
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), spire
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); buttons
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) and button-like plates and rods (
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)
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), the latter usually perforate at ends. Tentacle rods slender,
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), spinulated at ends (
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). Longitudinal muscles with deposits resembling letters of alphabet in both script and print form.
</paragraph>
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Table discs of Isipingo specimen (
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27932)
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, with 810 marginal and sometimes a second series of much smaller holes outside these; buttons
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.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFF96FF8CD0A18816C635BD13" bold="true" box="[151,294,1331,1355]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">FIGURE 10.</emphasis>
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Lesson, 1833
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. SAMA27931. A. tables from ventral body wall; B. buttons from ventral body wall; C. plates from ventral podia; D. rods from dorsal podia; E. rods from tentacles. (All drawn to same scale)
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFF96FF8CD0A188CEC635BE5C" box="[151,294,1515,1540]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Distribution</emphasis>
Tropical-subtropical Indo-West Pacific Ocean,
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0
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.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFF96FF8CD0A18B46C7E2BE24" box="[151,241,1635,1660]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Habitat</emphasis>
Benthic, shallow, inshore.
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<emphasis id="B953EABFFF96FF8CD0A18BFEC7EDBEAC" box="[151,254,1755,1780]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Remarks</emphasis>
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Despite the absence of a distinct ring around the anus, the Sodwana specimen is still referred to the widely distributed
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H. (M)
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</emphasis>
. It is, however, briefly described above as there are some significant differences. The Isipingo specimens, definitely referable to
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,
</emphasis>
have smaller spicules than those given for the species by
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, but their dimensions match those of
<bibRefCitation id="EFB64B5CFF96FF8CD2C68A5EC4A5BFCD" author="Pearson, J." box="[752,950,1915,1941]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" pagination="167 - 182" refId="ref30613" refString="Pearson, J. (1910) Littoral Marine Fauna: Kerimba Archipelago, Portuguese East Africa. Holothurioidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 7, 167 - 182." type="journal article" year="1910">Pearsons (1910)</bibRefCitation>
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specimen and of Samyn &amp; Massins (2003)
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material. The latter workers recently removed the species from
<emphasis id="B953EABFFF96FF8CD4E78A86C276BFE4" box="[1233,1381,1955,1980]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Thymiosycia</emphasis>
and transferred it to
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.
</emphasis>
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