Echinocardium capense Mortensen 1907
- Dataset
- Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Echinoidea
- order
- Spatangoida
- family
- Loveniidae
- genus
- Echinocardium
- species
- Echinocardium capense
description
Global maximum size. Maximum test length 50 mm. Global distribution. Endemic to West and South coasts of South Africa, at 55 – 310 m depth (Döderlein 1910; Clark & Courtman-Stock 1976).
discussion
Remarks. According to David & Laurin (1996), this species has been synonymized with the Mediterranean E. mortenseni and the Japanese E. lymani, however, Mironov (2006) has suggested that more information on pedicellarial variation amongst these species is needed before such conclusions are confirmed. We thus retain it for the present as a valid species.
materials_examined
Material examined. MBC-A 022294; MBC-A 022303; MBC-A 027879. Identification. Test oval, with short spines. Apical disc somewhat sunken, saddle-like in appearance. Anterior aboral ambulacra flushed; petals not widened at short internal fasciole, parallel. Anal fasciole and subanal fasciole joined. Preserved specimen brown.
Name
- Homonyms
- Echinocardium capense Mortensen 1907