Chaetodiadema granulatum: Brief Summary
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Chaetodiadema granulatum is a species of sea urchins of the Family Diadematidae. Their armour is covered with long and slender spines, and the test is quite flattened.
Chaetodiadema granulatum was first scientifically described in 1903 by Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen.
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Description: primary tubercles perforate and crenulate; ambulacra abruptly narrowing on oral side with spaced tubercles and spaces pore-pairs in a single series (Sastry, 1995). Habitat: subtidal sandy areas (Sastry, 1995). Also distributed in Maldive area, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (West Bengal), Andamans, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh (Sastry, 1995); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 45-84 (?293) m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Indo-west Pacific (Sastry, 1995). Ecology: benthic, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
4. Paxton, J.R. and Eschmeyer, W.N. (1994)
Encylopedia of Fishes. UNSW Press, Sydney.
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