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Sterechinus neumayeri (Meissner, 1900, p. 12)

Diagnostic Features	Differs from Sterechinus agassizii in having only ocular plates I and V insert.  Differs from S. antarcticus in having a more domed test in profile and in the shape of its globiferous and triphyllous pedicellariae.
Distribution	Recent, circum-Antarctic
Classification and/or Status	A species of Sterechinus
Remarks	Mortensen, T. 1943. A monograph of the Echinoidea III3, Camarodonta 2. C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen.