Cenometra bella (Hartlaub)

Sastry, D. R. K., Marimuthu, N. & Rajan, Rajkumar, 2019, Echinodermata of Lakshadweep, Arabian Sea with the description of a new genus and a species, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) : -

Cenometra bella (Hartlaub)

1890. Antedon bella Hartlaub, C. Nach. Ges. Gottingen, (1890) 5:174

1947. Cenometra bella : Clark, A.H. U. S. nat. Mus . Bull. 82: 27

1971. Cenometra bella : Clark, A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E. Monograph of shallow-water Indo-West Pacific echinoderms, p. 19 (key), p. 10-11 (distribution).

2019. Cenometra bella : Messing, C. WoRMS.

Materials: KA -55. Dt. 17.02.2018. One spec. KA - 44 Dt. 15.02.2018. One spec. KV Dt. 05.12.2018. One spec. KP1 . Dt. 20.02.2018. One spec. KP-10 . Dt. 20.02.2018 . Fourspecs. KP - 38: Dt. 21.02.2018. One spec. KP -4. Dt.

20.02.2018. Two specs. KP -42. Dt . 21.02.2018. One spec. KP - 18. Dt . 20.02.2018. One spec; KP -30 Dt . 21.02.2018. One spec; KP-29 . Dt . 21.02.2018. Three specs. KP - 8. Dt .

20.02.2018. One spec. KP - 6. Dt . 20.02.2018. Three specs. KV - N18 . Dt . 03.12.2018. One spec; KV. Dt . 09.02.2018. One spec. KV - 12 . 10.02.2018. One spec.

Description: Arms up to 35, 135mm long. No tubercles on basal segments of proximal pinnules, no carination on pinnule segments. All division series of 2 ossicles, rarely a IIBr with 4 ossicles. III Br either on both sides or alternating with arms on inner or outer side. P 2 stout and largest, distal margin spinose, not carinate. P 1 similar to P 2 but less stout and a little shorter. P 3 much smaller than P 2. Cirri up to 40, with up to 40 segments, distal segments with a pair of tubercles on dorsal side.

Distribution: Lakshadweep. Elsewhere: Bay of Bengal to South Pacific Islands. The species newly recorded from Lakshadweep is also new to Indian Fauna.