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Aslia spyridophora (H. L. Clark 1923)

Description

provided by World Register of Marine Species
Small species, 17-40 mm; life colouration grey, greyish -brown or dark maroon with the suckers often rust-coloured. Habitat: Sand, pebbles, broken shells, rock. Usually cryptofaunic orin soft conglomerates of sand, shells and stones (Conand, 1998). Distribution: from Lambert's Bay on the south-west coast to Perrier's Rock, south of Cape Vidal on the east coast (Thandar, 1991).
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bibliographic citation
Thandar, A.S. (1991). The Cucumariid holothurians of southern Africa with the erection of a new genus. S. Afr. J. Zool. 26(3): 115 - 139.
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