* Lovenia elongata (Gray, 1825)

Fig. 70 A–C.

Lovenia elongata: A. Agassiz, 1872 –74: 139, 575. Pl. XIX, Figs 1–4, Pl. XXV, Fig. 3. Pl. XXVI, Fig. 35–36. Pl. XXXVII, Figs 18–19, Pl. XXXVIII, Figs 27–28; Alcock & Anderson, 1894: 195; Döderlein, 1906: 265. Pl. XLVIII, Fig. 5; Döderlein, 1910: 248; Mortensen, 1951: 97 –104. Pl. VII, Figs 1–10. Pl. VIII, Fig. I. Pl. XII, Fig. 5. Pl. XLVII, Figs 10–23; H.L. Clark, 1923: 404; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 230; Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 252; Richmond, 1997: 300 –301; Schultz, 2010: 419, Fig. 789; Filander & Griffiths, 2014: 55 –56. Pl. II, Fig. I.

Material examined. SAMC-A28213; SAMC-A28215; SAMC-A28216; SAMC-A28219; A27738.

Identification. Test delicate, elongated, conspicuous anterior notch. Apical disc subcentral, with four gonopores. Peristome kidney-shaped; labral plate narrow, elongated; sternal plates appearing naked, posteriorly tuberculated. Anterior ambulacrum somewhat indented, with pore-pairs differentiated; paired petals, wide at internal fasciole, narrowing towards distal ends. Primary tubercles large, with deep areoles. Periproct positioned at upper side of posterior invagination. Spines long, aboral ones particularly elongate and banded. Denuded test white, live specimen brown to reddish.

Global maximum size. Maximum test length 85 mm.

Global distribution. Red Sea along East African coast to Mozambique and East coast of South Africa, and from south Japan to east coast of Australia, from littoral to 183 m (Döderlein 1910; Mortensen 1951; Schultz 2010).

South African records: Noted as a new South African record by Filander & Griffiths (2014), but in fact previously recorded by Döderlein (1910) from off Umhloti River (Natal) at 155–183 m. However, that historic record was not captured in Filander & Griffiths (2014).

Remarks. May be mistaken for Eurypatagus parvituberculata, however, differs in having an anterior notch and deep aboral areoles.