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Temnopleurus alexandri
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Marine Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Panjim, Goa, 403 206 (India) curivonker @ gmail. com
Description
Temnopleurus alexandri (Bell, 1884)
HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — Littoral zone down to 50 m depth (Schultz 2006) from the eastern Indian Ocean to the coasts of Australia (Clark & Rowe 1971).
DESCRIPTION
Maximum test diameter 80 mm. Genital plate with some larger tubercles at the inner edge, absence of distinct suranal plate and anal opening near the centre of the periproct. Pore-pairs arranged in oblique arcs. Each interambulacral plate containing up to seven primary tubercles arranged in horizontal series. Sutural pits deep at the oral side. Spines short, pointed, less than half the test diameter, coloured greenish at the base, distally more purplish (Mortensen 1943; Schultz 2006).
Notes
Published as part of Hegde, Mahabaleshwar R. & Rivonker, Chandrashekher U., 2013, A new record of Temnopleurus decipiens (de Meijere, 1904) (Echinoidea, Temnopleuroida, Temnopleuridae) from Indian waters, pp. 97-111 in Zoosystema 35 (1) on page 105, DOI: 10.5252/z2013n1a8, http://zenodo.org/record/5159852
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5252/z2013n1a8 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5159852 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/4571FF88FFD0FFC8C908FFC9FF85E015 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/B94887F0FFD8FFC1CBEEFAA2FE9DE1C5 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Camarodonta
- Family
- Temnopleuridae
- Genus
- Temnopleurus
- Species
- alexandri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Temnopleurus alexandri (Bell, 1884) sec. Hegde & Rivonker, 2013
References
- SCHULTZ H. 2006. - Sea Urchins, a Guide to Worldwide Shallow Water Species. Heinke & Peter Schultz Partner Scientific Publications, Hemdingen, 495 p.
- CLARK A. M. & ROWE F. E. W. 1971. - Monograph of Shallow-Water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History, London, 238 p.
- MORTENSEN T. 1943. - A Monograph of the Echinoidea Part III, No. 2 Camarodonta 1. Orthopsidae, Glyphocyphidae, Temnopleuridae and Toxopneustidae. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen, 553 p.