New taeniogyrinid species of sea cucumber from the Weddell Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Synaptida)
Author
O’Loughlin, P. Mark
Author
Mackenzie, Melanie
Author
Vandenspiegel, Didier
Author
Griffiths, Huw
text
Zootaxa
2015
3995
1
271
283
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.23
816f34d5-3d94-489e-a754-2eef221b73a4
1175-5326
238175
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Sigmodota
Studer, 1876
Diagnosis
(
O’Loughlin & VandenSpiegel 2010
). Taeniogyrinid genus with 12 plates in calcareous ring, 12 tentacles, peltato-digitate, 4–7 pairs of digits per tentacle, terminal pair longest; rods in tentacles; chiridotid wheels and sigmoid hooks in body wall; teeth on the inner rim of wheels in continuous series; wheels grouped into papillae, hooks scattered in body wall; no miliary granules in longitudinal muscles; 3–10 polian vesicles; ciliated funnels present.