Dermechinus horridus subsp. africanus Doderlein 1906
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Description
Dermechinus horridus africanus Döderlein, 1906
Fig. 42 A–C.
Sterechinus horridus: Döderlein, 1906: 220 –222. Pl. XXVIII, Figs 1–2. Pl. XXXV, Figs 2–3. Pl. XLVII, Figs 10–11; Döderlein, 1910: 248.
Echinus horridus: H.L. Clark, 1923: 384; H.L. Clark, 1924: 7; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 113. Dermechinus horridus: Mortensen, 1943: 112 –117. Pl. XIX, Figs 6–10, Pl. XX, Figs 1–3, Pl. LVI, Figs 22–23, 29– 31; Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 235; Schultz, 2010: 182.
Material examined. MBC-A 023078; MBC-A023372; MBC-A077820; MBC-A077819; MBC-A077821. Identification. Test melon-shaped, ambulacra sunken, corresponding raised interambulacra, giving distinctive appearance. Miliary spines numerous, orange reddish in color.
Global maximum size. Maximum test diameter 90 mm, maximum height 120 mm. Global distribution. South America, West and South coast regions of South Africa, south Australia and Tasmania, Southern New Zealand and Antarctic, at 30–1020 m depth (Döderlein 1910; Mortensen 1943; Schultz 2010)
Remarks. Variation in test height exists, but is not of taxonomic value, as short and high populations co-exist and all other characters match (Mortensen 1943).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echinidae
- Genus
- Dermechinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Camarodonta
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Doderlein
- Species
- africanus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dermechinus horridus subsp. africanus Doderlein, 1906 sec. Filander & Griffiths, 2017
References
- Doderlein, L. (1906) Die Echinoiden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee- Expedition, 5, 61 - 290.
- Doderlein, L. (1910) Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea. In: Schultze, L. (Ed.), Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt 1903 - 1905 (Jenaer Denkschrift 16), 4 (1), pp. 246 - 258.
- Clark, H. L. (1923) The echinoderm fauna of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 13 (7), 221 - 435.
- Clark, H. L. (1924) Echinoderms from the South African Fisheries and Marine Biology Survey. Part I. Sea-Urchins (Echinoidea). Report, Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa, 4 (1), 1 - 33.
- Clark, H. L. (1925 a) A Catalogue of the Recent Sea-urchins (Echinoidea) in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Trustees of the British Museum, London, 250 pp.
- Mortensen, T. (1943 a). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III. 2. Camarodonta. I. Orthopsidae, Glyphocyphidae, Temnopleuridae and Toxopneustidae. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 553 pp.
- Clark, A. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976) The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. Publication no. 766. British Museum of Natural History, London, 277 pp.
- Schultz, H. (2010) Sea-Urchins, a Guide to Worldwide Shallow Water Species. 3 rd Edition. Scientific Publication, Hemdingen, 484 pp.