Psolidium kharlamenkoi-a new species of holothurian (Holothuroidea Dendrochirotida: Psolidae) from the Kuril Islands
Author
Panina, Elena G.
Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Geographical Institute, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Partizanskaya str., 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Author
Stepanov, Vadim G.
Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Geographical Institute, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Partizanskaya str., 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Author
Martynov, Alexander V.
Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya str. 6, Moscow, 125009, Russia.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-30
4995
2
266
280
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4995.2.3
1175-5326
5056459
D900D2BE-B9B9-4B71-A581-651A8CE83179
Genus
Psolidium
Ludwig, 1886
Type
species.
Psolidium dorsipes
Ludwig, 1886
(by monotypy).
Diagnosis.
Small forms (sole a few centimeters long); sole sharply set off; with feet along the edges and few to many in the mid-ventral ambulacrum; dorsal side with numerous imbricating scales. Spicules in sole, plates or buttons, smooth to knobbed; usually an external layer of small deep cups occurs. Feet with end plate and supporting plates or rods. Dorsal side usually with an external layer of cups (lacking in some species) or towers (sometimes reduced during ontogeny) and grains on the scales. Dorsal tube feet with or without an end plate and supporting rods or plates in the walls (the
type
species has squarish plates similar to those of
Thyonepsolus
) (
Deichmann 1941
;
Lambert 1996
).