Sea cucumbers of the genus Labidodemas (Holothuroidea: Holothuriida: Holothuriidae) from Indonesia, with the description of a new species and a revised key to the genus
Author
Setyastuti, Ana
Research Center for Oceanography, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Jalan Pasir Putih I, Ancol Timur, Jakarta Utara, 14430, Indonesia
Author
Solis-Marin, Francisco Alonso
Colección Nacional de Equinodermos “ Dra. Ma. Elena Caso Muñoz ”, Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad de México, C. P. 04510, México
Author
Lüter, Carsten
Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. Invalidenstr. 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-09-06
5506
2
227
244
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.2.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5506.2.4
1175-5326
13746857
55527A8F-3454-49A2-AD65-ECBAE234C03D
Key to the species of the genus
Labidodemas
1 Tables with large disc perforated by at least two circles of peripheral holes........................................ 2
- Tables with small discs without peripheral holes or with one circle of peripheral holes............................... 3
2 Tables with high spire.......................................................................
L. maccullochi
- Tables with low spire or no spire..............................................................
L. americanum
3 Table crown> table disc................................................................................ 4
- Table crown <table disc................................................................................ 7
4 Table disc with very few or without peripheral holes......................................................... 5
- Table disc with one circle of peripheral holes............................................................... 6
5 Rim of table disc spiny, disc with four central holes; table crown with four long acute spines, occasionally bifurcated distally; buttons and pseudo-buttons absent in body wall; anal papillae absent...............................
L. quadripartitum
- Rim of table disc very spiny, disc with four to five central holes; table crown with four to five long acute spines arranged in regular/overlapping; always bifurcated distally; buttons absent in body wall; pseudo-buttons present in body wall; anal papillae present.....................................................................
Labidodemas javaensis
sp. nov.
6 Rim of table disc spiny, disc with four to six central holes; table crown with four to five long spines most of them bifurcated distally; table crown> table disc; buttons present in dorsal body wall................................
L. semperianum
- Table disc smooth, disc with five to eight central holes; table crown with five to eight huge spines deeply bifurcated distally; table crown >> table disc (up to twice the diameter); buttons present in dorsal and ventral body wall..
L. pseudosemperianum
7 Table spire high, buttons present and smooth........................................................
L. rugosum
- Table spire low, buttons present or absent; if present, spiny.................................................... 8
8 Table disc with peripheral holes, buttons present; table crown very irregular...............................
L. spineum
- Table disc nearly always without peripheral holes; buttons absent; table crown regular.......................
L. pertinax