Description
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Description: skin rather thin, clear yellow-brown. Podia yellow, ventrally arranged in three rows (the median double), dorsally scattered and much smaller. Tables abundant; the edge of their disc usually has some short points; the spire is rather high and narrow, with acute apical points. Buttons without knobs and with 4-6 pairs of holes. Small rods and perforated plates in the podia (Tortonese, 1980). General distribution: Indian and Pacific Oceans (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, shallow waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Also distributed in Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, detritus feeder, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
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- bibliographic citation
- Tortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139. Tortonese, E. (1980). Researches on the coast of Somalia. Littoral Echinodermata. Monitore zoologico italiano NS Supplemento XIII 5: 99-139.
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- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
