Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus)

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) : -

Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus)

1758. Echinus mammillatus Linnaeus, C. Systema Naturae, 10: 667.

1971. Heterocentrotus mammillatus : Clark, A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E. Monograph of shallow-water Indo-West Pacific echinoderms,

p. 158 (key), p. 142-143 (distribution).

1991. Heterocentrotus mammillatus : Sastry, D.R.K. State Fauna Series 2: Fauna of Lakshadweep. p. 389.

2007. Heterocentrotus mammillatus : Sastry, D.R.K. Rec. zool. Surv. India Occ. Paper No. 271: 184.

Material: KV-81 . 24.11.2018. One massive primary spine only .

Distribution: Lakshadweep. Elsewhere: Red Sea and

East Coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands.