Metrodira subulata Gray, 1840

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subulata Gray, 1840 , Metrodira

( Fig. 39 )

Metrodira subulata Gray, 1840: 280 . — Clark 1996: 243.

CURRENT STATUS. — Metrodira subulata Gray, 1840 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MHNH; Lesueur drawings collection; ref. 74017; Baudin expedition; Péron and Lesueur leg .

DISTRIBUTION. — North part of Australia, Gulf of Bengal, Indonesia, Philippines.

REMARK

Péron and Lesueur’s material of the species could not be found in the MNHN.

Figures

FIG. 39. — Metrodira subulata Gray, 1840: A, B, abactinal (A) and actinal (B) surfaces; C, abactinal structure of an arm section showing the minute granulation of abactinal plates and the arrangements of pairs or triplets of spines (text: ‘above’); D, actinal structure of an arm section showing the triangular inner part of adambulacral plates bearing six furrow spines and projecting above the ambulacral groove; note also the occurrence of a single broad erected subambulacral spine (MHNH, Lesueur collection 74017, details, courtesy of MHNH).