Antarctic holothuroids from the Bellingshausen Sea, with descriptions of new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)
Author
O’Loughlin, Mark
Author
Manjón-Cabeza, Eugenia
Author
Ruiz, Francina Moya
text
Zootaxa
2009
2016
1
16
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185959
813a57fd-0abc-4ebf-ab00-4c71ec46f634
1175-5326
185959
Cucamba
O’Loughlin
gen. nov.
Diagnosis.
Genus of family
Cucumariidae
with 8 and 2 smaller tentacles; larger tube feet on 5 radii; smaller tube feet scattered on interradii; single-layered perforated plate body wall ossicles.
Type
species.
Cucumaria psolidiformis
Vaney, 1908
(monotypic).
Etymology.
From
Cuc
(first part of family name), with the Latin
ambo
(two together), referring to the two sizes of tube feet (feminine).
Remarks.
In this work
Caespitugo citriformis
Gutt, 1990
, the
type
species for
Caespitugo
Gutt, 1990
, is judged to be a junior synonym of
Thyone scotiae
Vaney, 1906
.
Thyone scotiae
Vaney
is referred to
Crucella
Gutt, 1990
.
Caespitugo
Gutt
thus becomes a junior synonym of
Crucella
Gutt.