Description
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Description: arm length to 30 mm, disc diameter to 6 mm. Small species with disc plates of mixed sizes, but radial shields obvious. Plate with comb-like arrangement of spines at base of arm and between arm base and radial shields. Colour uniformly greyish. Habitat: eulittoral and deeper in coral rubble and other coarse substrates. Also distributed in Gilbert Islands, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: WIO, Red Sea to W Pacific (Richmond, 1998); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 9-500 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
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- bibliographic citation
- Tortonese, E. (1977). Report on Echinoderms from the gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology N.S. S. IX(12): 273-290. Tortonese, E. (1977). Report on Echinoderms from the gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology N.S. S. IX(12): 273-290.
- contributor
- Eunice Onyango [email]
