The Antarctic holothurian genus Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990 (Dendrochirotida, Cucumariidae): brood pouches, spermatozoa, spermatozeugmata and taxonomic implications
Author
Bohn, Jens Michael
Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D- 81247 München, Germany. E-mail: jens. m. bohn @ gmail. com Department Biologie II, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshaderner Strasse 2, D- 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. E-mail: hess @ bio. lmu. de
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-07-29
3841
4
573
591
journal article
5413
10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.7
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1175-5326
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Genus
Echinopsolus
Gutt, 1990
Echinopsolus
Gutt, 1990: 112
.
Type
species:
E. acanthocola
Gutt, 1990
, by original designation.
Microchoerus
Gutt, 1990: 105
[non
Wood 1844
].
Type
species:
M. splendidus
Gutt, 1990
, by original designation. [
Microchoerus
Gutt, 1990
is a junior homonym of
Microchoerus
Wood, 1844
]
Diagnosis
[emended]:
Cucumariidae
with 10 tentacles, the two ventral considerably smaller. Sexes separate and dimorphic, genital papilla large digitiform in males, usually inconspicuous in females, five interradial anterior brood pouches in females (not present in males). Spermatozoa with fusiform head and hollow cylinder-like midpiece encircling anterior end of flagellum; multiple spermatozoa bundled by agglutinating tails to bunch-like spermatozeugmata. Calcareous deposits derived from simple multi-perforate plates.