Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1992 - Natural history |
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... asper Théel , 1879 ( by monotypy ) . Remarks This genus was erected by Théel ( 1879 ) for the West Indian species O. asper , characterized by only spinous rods in the body wall . Since then the following eight Indo - West Pacific ...
... asper Théel , 1879 ( by monotypy ) . Remarks This genus was erected by Théel ( 1879 ) for the West Indian species O. asper , characterized by only spinous rods in the body wall . Since then the following eight Indo - West Pacific ...
Page 171
... asper and insignis because of the presence of spicules similar to those of O. asper Théel and O. insignis Fisher . Previous record Off Natal coast , 1 000–1 200 m , as O. glaber A. M. Clark , 1977 . Material examined Holotype , SAM ...
... asper and insignis because of the presence of spicules similar to those of O. asper Théel and O. insignis Fisher . Previous record Off Natal coast , 1 000–1 200 m , as O. glaber A. M. Clark , 1977 . Material examined Holotype , SAM ...
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... asper , the ventral spicules are somewhat like those of O. aspersignis ; hence O. natalasper appears intermediate between the two species . It differs from O. asper not only in the nature of the ventral deposits ( no transformation of ...
... asper , the ventral spicules are somewhat like those of O. aspersignis ; hence O. natalasper appears intermediate between the two species . It differs from O. asper not only in the nature of the ventral deposits ( no transformation of ...
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A. M. Clark Abbreviation absent ambulacrum asper Théel beam trawl bicuspidata body-wall spicules Calcareous ring dichotomous ramifications dichotomously ramified rods discs Dorsal body wall dorsal papillae Dorsal spicules double rows echinatus sp Gastropoda genus Globigerina ooze Gonad Heding Heding's Hérouard high number holothurians Holotype Indo-West Pacific Koehler & Vaney Kosi Bay length Ludwig Madreporite Mesothuria parva Théel mid-ventral pedicels number of dorsal number of ventrolateral Orphnurgus aspersignis sp Orphnurgus glaber Orphnurgus insignis Fisher Orphnurgus natalasper sp paratypes Pedicels and dorsal perforated plates podia posteriorly primary crosses Pseudostichopus pteropod R.V. Meiring Naude ramifications Fig references rods with dichotomous rudimentary short spinous rods side max single rows smooth rods Sodwana Bay South African Museum southern African spatulate crosses spatulate rods specimens spinous extremities spiny Stone canal stout Synallactidae synonymy tentacles Tentacular terminal ramifications trachus transformation Type species Ventral body wall ventral deposits ventral spicules ventrolateral ambulacra Ventrolateral papillae Ventrolateral pedicels