Lissothuria caboblanquensis n. sp., a new species of sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Psolidae) from Costa Rica
Author
Laguarda-Figueras, Alfredo
text
Zootaxa
2014
3802
1
144
150
journal article
45689
10.11646/zootaxa.3802.1.12
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1175-5326
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Genus
Lissothuria
Verrill, 1867
Lissothuria
Verrill, 1867
: 322
.
Thyonepsolus
H. L. Clark, 1901
: 167
(
Type
species:
T. nutriens
, original designation).
Thionepsolus
DeLage and Hérouard 1903
: 320
(error for
Thyonepsolus
).
Diagnosis
(
amended
from
Pawson, 1967
: 3): Psolids with tube feet on dorsal surface of body and in midventral interradius. Dorsal scales few or numerous, imbricating, perforated for the passage of tube feet, covered by an external layer of ossicles that include hourglass shaped bodies, baskets or cups and towers; one of these
types
may be absent. Sole ossicles are knobbed or smooth plates; in some species shallow or deep cups also present.
Type
species.
Lissothuria ornata
Verrill
(original designation, by monotypy).