Nomenclatural changes in some sea cucumbers with the erection of a new genus and description of a Thyone? juvenile (? n. sp.) from the Gulf of California (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida)
Author
Thandar, Ahmed S.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-27
5026
4
507
526
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5026.4.3
1175-5326
5300888
A3AA106D-527A-4934-953C-C2EA746659FE
Stolus uniannulatus
(
Sluiter, 1914
)
n. comb.
Figure 7
Thyone uniannulata
Sluiter, 1914: 10
, fig. 3 a, b.
Diagnosis (s
ee
Sluiter, 1914
).
Material examined.
ZMUA
(H. 2194), northern
Java
,
6 19 S
,
110 50 E
,
50 m
.
Remarks.
This species was assigned to
Havelockia
by
Panning (1949)
, transferred back to
Thyone
in his addendum, but currently assigned to
Havelockia
by WoRMS (529501, accessed
16 June 2021
). The writer concurs with
Sluiter (1914)
that its calcareous ring (
Figure 7A
) is close to that of
Stolus sacellus
(=
S. buccalis
) and surprisingly the specimen also feels as rigid as a young
S. buccalis
. In addition, there are regular four-holed knobbed buttons/plates in the body wall, resembling those of
S. buccalis
,
although some of them have up to eight holes. In the introvert there are elongated, smooth to spinous perforated plates and some rosettes (
Figure 7B
). In
S. buccalis
, on the other hand, the introvert possesses multilocular knobbed plates and rosettes.
James (1966)
describes the introvert deposits in his specimens of
S. buccalis
as thin smooth buttons. Hence, there are some similarities between
S. uniannulatus
n. comb.
and
S. buccalis
but they are definitely not conspecific but perhaps congeneric. The structure of the calcareous ring and the presence of knobbed plates in the body wall preclude the inclusion of this species in
Havelockia
. Hence, the species is here transferred to the genus
Stolus
without any hesitation.