The Discovery Expedition sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)
Author
O’Loughlin, P. Mark
Marine Biology Section, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
pmoloughlin@edmundrice.org
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2016
2016-12-31
75
53
70
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2016.75.03
1447-2554
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7039F593-8FE2-4668-BBC9-E18F2D82F8F8
6.
Sigmodota contorta
(
Ludwig, 1875
)
.
O’Loughlin & VandenSpiegel (2010)
published the determinations of numbers of
Discovery
Expedition synaptid (as apodid) holothuroids (see
Table 4
above). They reported
10 specimens
of
Sigmodota contorta
(
Ludwig, 1875
)
(
NHMUK
2010.75–84) from Marine Station 82 (Saldanha Bay). The location of Sladanha Bay in
South Africa
was not noticed, and the locality was mistakenly given as the
Falkland Islands
. There have been no other reports of
Sigmodota contorta
from
South Africa
, and this report for Saldanha Bay is now judged to be a mistake. There is also an RRS
William Scoresby
station 82 and this is now judged to be the source of the specimens. This station WS 82 was off the
Falkland Islands
at
140–
144 m.