Coelopleurus interruptus Doderlein 1910

Coelopleurus interruptus Döderlein, 1910 Fig 33 A–C. Coelopleurus floridanus: Döderlein, 1906: 181 –182. Pl. XLV, Fig. 2. [misidentification] Coelopleurus floridanus var. interrupta: Döderlein, 1910: 247, 257–258. Coelopleurus interruptus: H.L. Clark, 1923: 379 –381. Pl. XXI, Fig. 3; H.L. Clark, 1925a: 74; Mortensen, 1935: 626. Pl. LXXXVIII, Fig. 30; Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976: 229; Schultz, 2010: 124. Material examined. MBC-A077792; MBC-A077793. Identification. Test low hemispherical, dark reddish, with naked interambulacra zone, which is brown with transverse light violet bands, white lateral borders. Spines long, fusiform, color greenish with red patches. Global maximum size. Maximum diameter 40 mm. Global distribution. Endemic to South Africa, at 55 – 140 m depth (Mortensen 1935; Clark & Courtman- Stock 1976). Remarks. Samples identified through current study extends previously known distribution of Mossel Bay/ Knysna and Port Elizabeth, northwards towards Durban.Published as part of Filander, Zoleka & Griffiths, Charles, 2017, Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4296 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4296.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/84332