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
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Subfamily
Taeniogyrinae
Smirnov, 1998
Figure 7.
Prototrochus linseae
sp. nov.
(S Shetland Is; RBINS IG 31 459). a, SEM of plates of the calcareous ring with prominent single anterior projections; b, SEM of wheels from the body wall.
Diagnosis (
Smirnov 1998
)
.
Chiridotidae
with 10 or 12 tentacles. Body wall ossicles wheels of chiridotid
type
and sigmoid hooks or sigmoid hooks only. Radial plates of calcareous ring not perforated but sometimes slightly notched in anterior (upper) face for passage of nerves.
Included genera
.
Archedota
O’Loughlin, 2007
(in
O’Loughlin and VandenSpiegel 2007
);
Kolostoneura
Becher, 1909
;
Rowedota
gen. nov.
;
Scoliorhapis
H. L.
Clark, 1946
;
Sigmodota
Studer, 1876
;
Taeniogyrus
Semper, 1867
.
Remarks
.
Achiridota
Clark, 1908
was initially placed in
Chiridotidae
, but was assigned to
Myriotrochidae
by
Smirnov (1998)
on the basis of having: large anterior teeth on the plates of the calcareous ring; single polian vesicle; madreporite close to calcareous canal.
Sigmodota
Studer
is raised out of synonymy with
Taeniogyrus
Semper
(below).
Trochodota
Ludwig, 1891
is made a junior synonym of
Taeniogyrus
Semper
(below).
Scoliodotella
Oguro, 1961
is made a junior synonym of
Scoliorhapis
H. L. Clark
(below).