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Heterocentrotus mammillatus

Scientific Name:-
Heterocentrotus mammillatus

Common Name:-
Red pencil urchin

Malayalam Name:-
Chem Pencil Chena

Category:-
Echinodermata

Status:-
Unknown


Description:-

Brownish purple coloured specimen. Test globular. Cylindrical, large, heavy, massive, primary spines with blunt, rounded tips. Short secondary spines with flattened and slightly trilobed tips. Primary ambulacral tubercles abrubtly smaller above the ambitus and the spines truncated like the secondary spines. Each interambulacral plate with a llarge primary tubercle encircled with miliary tubercles. Below the ambitus to the oral field only primary tubercle present on each plate. Tridentate pedicellariae with narrow valves meeting only at the tip. Aboral spines shorter. Ten pore pairs in each arc at the ambitus. Lantern well developed with paired rod-like epiphyses bridging across the splayed upper ends of the pyramids.

Threats:-

Not recorded

Remark:-

This species is reported from Vizhinjam coast, Kerala by Jayakumari (2004) and James (2007).

Habitat:-

Shallow intertidal region

Synonyms:-

Acrocladia mamillata (Linnaeus, 1758); Cidaris mammillata (Linnaeus, 1758); Echinometra mammilliata (Linnaeus, 1758); Echinus mammillatus Linnaeus, 1758; Echinus castaneus Parry, 1810; Echinus carinatus Blainville, 1825; Hetrocentrotus carinatus Blainville, 1825; Echinometra carinata (Blainville, 1825); Hetrocentrotus postelsii Brandt, 1835; Echinometra blanvilli Des, Moulins, 1837; Acrocladia blainvillei (Des Moulins, 1837); Acrocladia hastifera (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1844); Acrocladia serialis Perrier, 1869; Echinometra hastifera Eydoux & Souleyet, 1884; Acrocladia planispina von Martens, 1886; Echinometra (Acrocladia) planispina von Martens, 1886

References:-

Clark, A. M and F.W.E. Rowe 1971. Monograph of shallow-water Indo West Pacific echinoderms. London. 238 pp.
James, D. B. 2007. Echinoderms of the West Coast of India. Fishing Chimes, 27(7): 19- 21.
Jayakumari, M. 2004. Studies on the ecophysiology of echinoderms along the coast of Kerala. Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the University of Kerala,. 226pp.
Kroh, A. (2010). A. Kroh & R. Mooi, ed. Heterocentrotus mamillatus (Linnaeus, 1758). World Echinoidea Database. World Register of Marine Species.
Sastry, R. K. (2007). Echinodermata of India: An annotated check list . Rec. zool. Surv. India. Occ. paper No.271: 1-387




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