Echinocardium capense Mortensen 1907

• Main Authors: Filander, Zoleka, Griffiths, Charles
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Echinoidea; Spatangoida; Loveniidae; Echinocardium; Echinocardium capense; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6022912; https://zenodo.org/record/6022912

Echinocardium capense Mortensen, 1907 Fig. 68 A–D. Echinocardium flavescens : A. Agassiz, 1881: 175; Bell, 1904: 174. Echinocardium capense : Döderlein, 1910:248; H.L. Clark, 1923: 405. Pl. XIII; H.L Clark, 1924: 15; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 232; Schultz, 2010: 416, Fig. 785. Material examined. MBC-A 022294; MBC-A 022303; MBC-A027879. 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. 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). 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. : Published as part of Filander, Zoleka & Griffiths, Charles, 2017, Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4296 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4296.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843325 : {"references": ["Mortensen, T. (1907) The Danish Ingolf-Expedition 1895 - 1896. Vol. 4. No. 2. Echinoidea. Part 2. Bianco Luno, Copenhagen, 200 pp.", "Agassiz, A. (1881) Report on the Echinoidea dredged by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. In: Report of the scientific results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 76: a summary of the scientific results, Zoology, 3, 1 - 321.", "Bell, F. J. (1904) The Echinodermata found off the coast of South Africa. I. Echinoidea. Marine Investigations in South Africa, 3, 167 - 175.", "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.", "Schultz, H. (2010) Sea-Urchins, a Guide to Worldwide Shallow Water Species. 3 rd Edition. Scientific Publication, Hemdingen, 484 pp.", "Clark, A. & Courtman-Stock, J. (1976) The Echinoderms of Southern Africa. Publication no. 766. British Museum of Natural History, London, 277 pp.", "David, B. & Laurin, B. (1996) Morphometrics and cladistics: measuring phylogeny in the sea urchin Echinocardium. Evolution, 50 (1), 348 - 359.", "Mironov, A. N. (2006) Echinoids from seamounts of the north-eastern Atlantic; onshore / offshore gradients in species distribution. In: Mironov, A. N., Gebruk, A. V. & Southward, A. J. (Eds.), Biogeography of the North Atlantic Seamounts. KMK Scientific Press, Russian Academy of Sciences, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, pp. 96 - 133."]}