A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)
Author
Pawson, David L.
Author
Pawson, Doris J.
Author
King, Rachael A.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2449
1
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195134
f634771d-2f16-4f5a-87ce-06c29fb67e92
1175-5326
195134
Havelockia scabra
(Verrill, 1873)
Figure 17
Thyone scabra
.—
Deichmann,1930
:166
, pl.13, figs. 3,4.
Havelockia scabra
.—
Panning, 1949
: 466
; Pawson, 1977: 12, text-fig. 14.
Material examined.
None.
Diagnosis.
Body strongly curved, reaching
10 cm
in length. Color whitish, often with a brownish tinge. Feet hair-like, uniformly distributed. Body wall stiff, filled with ossicles in form of irregular tables (up to 130 μm in diameter) with 7–10 or more holes and a 2-pillared spire ending in indistinct teeth. In introvert tables have larger, more delicate and more circular disk and low spire.
Distribution.
MA to E and W FL, Gulf of
Mexico
.
Habitat. Sand/mud. 10 –
1,170 m
.
Remarks.
This is presumably a burrowing species. Nothing more is known about its biology.