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Orphnurgus natalasper Thandar 1992
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Orphnurgus natalasper Thandar 1992
(Fig. 29 A – E)
Ophnurgus natalasper Thandar, 1992: 176, figs 5, 7B.
Material examined. IE-2007-801 (1 specimen, sampled between Nosy Bé and Banc du Leven); IE-2007-820 (1 specimen, sampled between Nosy Bé and Banc du Leven).
Remarks. Even though our specimens have only 30 ventrolateral tube feet whereas the original description of O. natalasper Thandar, 1992, mentions 40, we feel no hesitation in assigning them to Thandar’s (1992) species because the short undivided spinous rods of the body wall are a near perfect match.
These records extends the range of O. natalasper northwards roughly 15 degrees. Depth (704 m) is close to the 860 m reported by Thandar (1992).
Notes
Published as part of Samyn, Yves & Vandenspiegel, Didier, 2016, Sublittoral and bathyal sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the Northern Mozambique Channel with description of six new species, pp. 451-497 in Zootaxa 4196 (4) on page 489, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/168273
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Deimatidae
- Genus
- Orphnurgus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Elasipodida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Thandar
- Species
- natalasper
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orphnurgus natalasper Thandar, 1992 sec. Samyn & Vandenspiegel, 2016
References
- Thandar, A. S. (1992) The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises. Part 18. Holothuroidea. Annals of the South African Museum, 10, 159 - 180.