Echinoidea taxon details
original description
Stara, P.; Sanciu, L. (2014). Analysis of some astriclypeids echinoids (Echinoidea Clypeasteroidea). – In: Stara, P. (ed.): Studies on some astriclypeids (Echinoidea Clypeasteroida). <em>Biodiversity Journal.</em> 5/2: 291-358., available online at http://www.biodiversityjournal.com/pdf/5(2)_291-358.pdf page(s): 344; pl. 19: figs. 1–7, tabs, 9, 12 [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Small-medium sized species, with a low side profile and slit-like lunules axially elongated in the posterior ambulacra. Petals closed distally, with the front odd longer than the other and the posterior ones slight shorter. In the oral inter. 5 there are 2 post-basicoronal plates in column "a" and 2 in column "b", with the first two ones staggered; between the petals and the notches there are 3 or 4 couples of plates, and the periproct opens along the suture between plates 2a/3b. [details]
Etymology From the name of S. Raimondi, the collector that have donated the specimen to the museum. [details]
Type locality Indonesia (Borneo) [details]
Type material Holotype: MAC.IVM 206 (TL = 53 mm); housed in the Department of Animal Biology and Ecology (UNICA), Cagliari, Italy. [details]
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