A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida)
Author
O’Loughlin, P. Mark
Author
VandenSpiegel, Didier
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2010
2010-12-31
67
61
95
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-67-2010/pages-61-95/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2010.67.06
1447-2554
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Paradota
Heding, 1935
Paradota
Heding
(in Ludwig and Heding), 1935: 150–151, fig. 14.—
Gutt, 1990: 125–126
.—
Massin, 1992: 321–323
.—
Smirnov, 1998: 520
.
Diagnosis.
Tentacles 12, peltato-digitate, with 5 to 7 pairs of digits, longest distally; rod ossicles in tentacles; lacking ossicles in the body wall; 1 to 11 polian vesicles.
Type
species.
Achiridota ingolfi
Heding, 1935
.
Other species.
Paradota weddellensis
Gutt, 1990
;
Paradota marionensis
Massin, 1992
.
Remarks
. Heding (in
Ludwig and Heding 1935
) erected
Paradota
for family
Chiridotidae
.
Gutt (1990)
referred
Paradota
to the Synpatidae
Burmeister, 1837
.
Smirnov (1998)
judged that the morphology of genus
Paradota
was close to that of genus
Chiridota
and referred
Paradota
to subfamily
Chiridotinae
.