Eurypatagus parvituberculatus (H.L. Clark, 1924)

Fig. 67 A–D.

Maretia parvituberculatus H.L. Clark, 1924: 13 –15. Pl IV; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 227. Eurypatagus parvituberculatus: Mortensen, 1950: 260 –262. Pl XVII, Figs I, 5–7. Pl XVIII, Figs 9, 11. Pl XIX, Figs 2, 11, 19; Schultz, 2009: 733, Figs 1248–1251.

Material examined. MBC-A 022343; MBC-A077995; MBC-A077933; MBC-A077933; MBC-A077934; MBC- A077935; MBC-A077938; MBC-A077939; MBC-A077948; MBC-A077949; MBC-A077942; MBC-A077944; MBC-A077943; MBC-A077953; SAMC-A23706; MBC-A077950; MBC-A077937; MBC-A077936; MBC- A077947; MBC-A077952; MBC-A077945; MBC-A077946; MBC-A077951; MBC-A077940.

Identification. Test outline ovoid, flat, without frontal notch. Apical disc anteriorly positioned. Peristome kidney-shaped. Aboral primary tubercles large, crenulated and perforated. Oral side flat, phyllodes well-developed, labral plate long, separated from sternal plates by adjacent ambulacral plates, sternal plates short, tubercles with large areoles laterally bordering naked space. Spines long. Red-brownish in color, with partially white spines.

Global maximum size. Maximum test length 75 mm.

Global distribution. East coast of South Africa and Mauritius (Mortensen 1950; Schultz 2009), at 30–325 m depth

Remarks. Samples identified through this study show that species can be found in shallower waters of 30 m than the previously thought 50 m.