WoRMS taxon details
original description
Anderson, O. F. (2016). A review of New Zealand and southeast Australian echinothurioids (Echinodermata: Echinothurioida)—excluding the subfamily Echinothuriinae—with a description of a new species of <em>Tromikosoma</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4092(4): 451., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.1 page(s): 467-471; figs 14-17 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea)
Anderson, O. F. (2016). A review of New Zealand and southeast Australian echinothurioids (Echinodermata: Echinothurioida)—excluding the subfamily Echinothuriinae—with a description of a new species of <em>Tromikosoma</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4092(4): 451., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NIWA 6610 [details]
Holotype NIWA 6610, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype NIWA 64937, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype NIWA 6611, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Deep-sea context derived from a specimen depth data search [details]
Diagnosis Small (adults possibly not seen), up to 69 mm TD; colour of test and appendages brownish-white; test puffed-up and wrinkled, the ambitus rounded and ill-defined; interambulacra wider than ambulacra (possibly juvenile condition); primary tubercles absent adradial to pore series in oral ambulacra; adapical secondary plates of aboral ambulacra elongate, occasionally reaching the perradius; madreporite indistinct; tridentate pedicellariae with minutely serrated edges. [details]
Etymology Named rugosum, because of its distinctive wrinkled appearance. [details]
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