Toggle navigation
marine only
extant only
Home
About
Subregisters
Users
Photogallery
Documents
LifeWatch
Contribute
Scientific names
Common names (slower)
Advanced search
Taxa
Literature
Distribution
Specimen
Editors
Statistics
Tools
Match taxa
Webservices
Taxon tree
IDKeys
Manual
Log in
Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS)
Data Policy
Persons
|
Institutes
|
Publications
|
Projects
|
Datasets
IMIS Photogallery
»
Echinodermata (echinoderms)
»
Echinoidea (sea urchins)
Ctenocidaris speciosa infected by Echinophyces mirabilis (lateral)
Description
Specimen infected by Echinophyces mirabilis. This specimen is anomalous in having six columns of ambulacra and interambulacra and in consequence six genital (without gonopores) and ocular plates in the apical disc. Side view: The test is conspicuously low with flattened aboral and oral sides.
Diameter of test 30 mm; South Georgia.
Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen
Author
Schultz, Heinke
JPG file
- 80.89 kB
- 945 x 482 pixels
added on 2011-02-23
322 views
From reference
Schultz, H. (2011). Sea urchins III: Worldwide regular de...
© 2011 Schultz, Heinke
Click
here
to return to the thumbnails overview
[
Back
]