Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa
Author
Filander, Zoleka
Author
Griffiths, Charles
text
Zootaxa
2017
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Stomopneustes variolaris
(
Lamarck, 1816
)
Fig. 32
A–C.
FIGURE 32.
Stomopneustes variolaris
A
. Map showing distribution.
B
. Live specimen (KwaZulu-Natal).
C
. Aboral view of preserved specimen (MBC-A077790).
Stomopneustes variolaris
:
Alcock & Anderson, 1894
: 193
;
Döderlein, 1910
: 248
;
Mortensen, 1935
: 507
–512. Pl. LXXI,
Figs 3–5
. Pl. LXXII,
Figs 1–2
. Pl. LXXXIX,
Figs 16–26
;
H.L. Clark, 1923
: 378
;
H.L. Clark, 1925a
: 68
; Clark & Courtman- Stock, 1976: 228;
Richmond, 1997
: 296
; Samyn, 2003: 208,
Fig. 4
A;
Branch
et al
., 2010
: 234
, Fig. 105.3;
Schultz, 2010
: 114
, Figs 203–206.
Material examined.
MBC-A023321; MBC-A077791; MBC-A077790.
Identification.
Test hard, robust; arched aborally, flattened orally; outline circular; denuded test white. Spines striated, stout, fusiform, black in color.
Global maximum size.
Maximum test diameter
110 mm
.
Global distribution.
Widely distributed in Indo-Pacific, from East coast region of South Africa through East Africa to Samoa Islands, from Japan to north Australia and New Caledonia; littoral (
Mortensen 1935
;
Schultz 2010
).