Histocidaris elegans ( A. Agassiz, 1879 )

Filander, Zoleka & Griffiths, Charles, 2017, Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa, Zootaxa 4296 (1), pp. 1-72 : 11-12

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scientific name	Histocidaris elegans ( A. Agassiz, 1879 )
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Histocidaris elegans ( A. Agassiz, 1879) View in CoL

Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A–B.

Porocidaris elegans: A. Agassiz, 1881: 40 . Pl. III, Pl. XXXVIII, Figs 12–16 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 View FIGURE 14 View FIGURE 15 View FIGURE 16 , Pl. XLIV, Figs 6–14 View FIGURE 6 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 View FIGURE 14 .

Histocidaris elegans: Döderlein, 1906: 117 View in CoL –120. Pl. XIII, Figs 1–3 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 , Pl. XL, Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 37 –38; Mortensen, 1928: 72–77. Pls. I, Figs 1–5 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 , Pl. II, Figs 1–3 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 , Pl. LXVIII, Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 , Pl. LXXV, Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 , Pl. LXXVI, Figs 9–13 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 ; Clark & Courtman- Stock, 1976: 215–216; Schultz, 2010: 29, Fig. 49 View FIGURE 49 .

Material examined. None, entry based on literature ( A22212 View Materials ).

Identification. Test with stout, rigid and round outline with smaller peristome found at the opposite pole of the periproct. Large sparsely-tuberculated apical disc, with ocular plates being exsert. Primary spines long, thin, serrated orally, numerous scrobicular spines.

Global maximum size. Maximum test diameter 67 mm.

Global distribution. South Japan to South Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 200–2000 m depth ( Schultz 2010).

Remark. Represented by one sample ( SAMC-A 22212 ) in the Iziko collection, but this specimen lacks any associated data. It thus seems likely that that specimen is the same one reported on, without locality data, by Mortensen (1932). This species thus remains a dubious record for South Africa and more samples are needed to document its true distribution in South African waters.