Araeosoma leppienae Anderson, 2013, sp. nov. ...
Araeosoma leppienae sp. nov. Figures 3 I, 20–22 Holotype —From Christable seamount, west of the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand: 51° 3.9´S, 164° 35.3´E, 968–973 m (118 mm TD), NIWA23724. Deposited in the NIC, Wellington. Caught on 14 April 2003 by RV Tangaroa during research into the ecology...
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| Summary: | Araeosoma leppienae sp. nov. Figures 3 I, 20–22 Holotype —From Christable seamount, west of the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand: 51° 3.9´S, 164° 35.3´E, 968–973 m (118 mm TD), NIWA23724. Deposited in the NIC, Wellington. Caught on 14 April 2003 by RV Tangaroa during research into the ecology of seamounts. Stored in 80% ethanol. Paratypes —None. Etymology —Named after Bridget Leppien, used as a noun in the genitive case. Diagnosis —Test and spines brown, darker in poriferous zone and paler between columns creating a radial pattern of alternating light and dark stripes; large tridentate pedicellariae with broad, coarsely serrated valves; small tridentate pedicellariae narrow, valves not serrated; involute tridentate pedicellariae lacking; dactylous pedicellariae with six valves; primary tubercles on every plate in the oral adradial interambulacral series. Description —Test of holotype (Figure 20) moderate size (118 mm TD), circular, flattened, rounded at ambitus. Colour of test brown, darkest in the ... : Published as part of Anderson, Owen F., 2013, A review of New Zealand and southeast Australian echinothuriinids (Echinodermata: Echinothuriidae) with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 521-567 in Zootaxa 3609 (6) on pages 544-548, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/219312 ... |
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