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
12212210
5A8C650E-A34A-4072-A797-0A75D218DD7C
Chiridotidae
Östergren, 1898
Diagnosis (
Smirnov 1998
)
.
Synaptina
with 10, 12 or 18 peltato-digitate, pinnate or bifurcate tentacles. Juveniles with bifurcate tentacles. Body wall ossicles wheels of chiridotid
type
and/or sigmoid hooks. Chiridotid
type
wheels with 6 spokes, numerous small denticles on inner side of rim and a complex hub; on lower side of each spoke a branch leans against the lower end of the hub forming a star structure. Ossicles in tentacles usually rods with branched ends.
Subfamilies.
Taeniogyrinae
Smirnov, 1998
;
Chiridotinae Östergren, 1898
(sensu
Smirnov 1998
).