Astropyga radiata ( Leske, 1778 )

Filander, Zoleka & Griffiths, Charles, 2017, Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa, Zootaxa 4296 (1), pp. 1-72 : 27-28

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* Astropyga radiata ( Leske, 1778) View in CoL

Fig. 25 View FIGURE 25 A–C.

Astropyga radiata: Alcock & Anderson, 1984: 192 View in CoL ; Mortensen, 1904: 18 –22. Pl. III, Figs 15 View FIGURE 15 , 19 View FIGURE 19 . Pl. IV, Figs 9 View FIGURE 9 , 17 View FIGURE 17 . Pl. V. Fig. 27 View FIGURE 27 ; H.L. Clark, 1923: 373; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 46 –47; Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 224; Richmond, 1997: 296; Samyn, 2003: 201, Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 F, F’, F”; Schultz, 2010: 88, Figs 157–161; Filander & Griffiths, 2014: 52. Pl. I, Fig. I.

Material examined. MBC-A 022214; SAMC-A28211.

Identification. Test red, with v-shaped, naked interambulacra zones aborally, with dark spots, shinning blue in live animal; pore-pairs almost in contact orally, distant aborally; madreporite extending into interambulacra.

Global maximum size. Maximum test diameter 118 mm.

Global distribution. East coast region of South Africa ( Filander & Griffiths 2014). Kenya (Samyn 2003), Zanzibar to Queensland, Australia, and Hawaiian Islands; littoral to 60 m depth ( Schultz 2010).

Remarks. Spines of adults and juveniles vary in colour, juvenile spines banded white and purplish-brown and those of adults a uniform color.