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<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC4FF8AFDDFB3CEA0F5FC38" ID-CoL="3MB49" authority="Ludwig, 1898" authorityName="Ludwig" authorityYear="1898" box="[612,969,916,940]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="platei">
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Ludwig, 1898
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFE82B38CA2D9FC7F" box="[313,485,982,1003]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuira platei</emphasis>
Ludwig, 1898
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, 432, pl. 56, figures 114.
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<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC4FF8AFE82B3AAA2D5FB91" authority="Platei" authorityName="Platei" box="[313,489,1008,1029]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFE82B3AAA2D5FB91" box="[313,489,1008,1029]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuria Platei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: Deichmann
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFDCDB3ABA19FFB91" box="[630,675,1008,1030]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">et al</emphasis>
., 1924: 381, text figure 1.
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<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC4FF8AFE82B451A074FBB4" ID-CoL="3MB49" authority=": Panning, 1935 d: 11" authorityName="Panning" authorityPageNumber="11" authorityYear="1935" box="[313,840,1034,1057]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="platei" subGenus="Holothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFE82B451A14DFBB4" box="[313,625,1035,1056]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuria (Holothuria) platei</emphasis>
: Panning, 1935d: 11
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, text figure 118.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="015AA946FFC4FF8AFE82B47FA731FBC2" blockId="22.[313,1268,948,1137]" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC4FF8AFE82B47FA014FBAF" ID-CoL="0c5e6633-c253-43da-a4bf-a568f676feec" authority=": Deichmann, 1958: 229" authorityName="Deichmann" authorityPageNumber="229" authorityYear="1958" box="[313,808,1061,1084]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Mertensiothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="platei">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFE82B47FA122FBAE" box="[313,542,1061,1082]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Mertensiothuria platei</emphasis>
: Deichmann, 1958: 229
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, pl. 3, figures 1012; Codoceo, 1976: 91; Rozbaczylo and Castilla, 1987: 185; Ramirez and Osorio, 2000: 7.
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC4FF8AFE82B401A05DFBE4" ID-CoL="3MB49" authority=": Rowe, 1969: 149" authorityName="Rowe" authorityPageNumber="149" authorityYear="1969" box="[313,865,1115,1137]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="platei" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFE82B401A198FBE4" box="[313,676,1115,1136]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) platei</emphasis>
: Rowe, 1969: 149
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; Samyn
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFC00B401A0D3FBE4" box="[955,1007,1115,1136]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">et al.</emphasis>
, 2001: 104, 107.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB4D6A134FB30" box="[353,520,1164,1188]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Original name.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFD99B4D6A1DEFB30" box="[546,738,1164,1188]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuria platei</emphasis>
Ludwig, 1898
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.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB4F6A17CFB50" box="[353,576,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Name-bearing type.</emphasis>
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,?
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locality.
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(Juan Fernández)
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.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB556A134FAB0" box="[353,520,1292,1316]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Current status.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC4FF8AFD98B556A763FAB0" authority="Ludwig, 1898" authorityName="Ludwig" authorityYear="1898" box="[547,1119,1292,1316]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="platei" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFD98B556A08AFAB0" box="[547,950,1292,1316]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) platei</emphasis>
Ludwig, 1898
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.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC4FF8AFEDAB576A103FAD0" box="[353,575,1324,1348]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508">Material examined.</emphasis>
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(
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,
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<collectingDate id="651F766EFFC4FF8AFE82B511A2CFFAF0" box="[313,499,1355,1380]" pageId="22" pageNumber="2508" value="1908-08-26">26 August 1908</collectingDate>
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, coll.
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,
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, coll
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;
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(
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.
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Medium size to large specimens (
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long), cylindrical with mouth and anus terminal. Colour in life varying from brown to almost black dorsally and from light brown to pale greyish white ventrally; tentacles dark brown. Colour in alcohol nearly the same but somewhat faded. Tube feet densely crowded ventrally, present in ambulacral and interambulacral areas. They are wide, short with a terminal disc 0.81.2 mm across. Dorsally the tube feet are small, much less numerous than ventrally, without terminal disc and scattered without alignment. Mouth surrounded by 20 very large, bushy tentacles; anus surrounded by five groups of three to four papillae. Calcareous ring with radial plates at least twice as long as the interradial ones; interradial plates with a sharp central tooth, radial plates quadrangular with a central notch on the anterior margin (figure 9A). One very long Polian vesicle (one-quarter of body length) and very long tentacle ampullae (one-fifth to one-sixth of body length). One very short stone canal ending in an ovoid madreporic plate. Longitudinal muscles very large (
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wide), undivided. Right respiratory tree going up to the calcareous ring. Cuvierian tubules present, but not observed in all specimens.
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F. 9.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC5FF8BFE2FB64EA17EF9BD" box="[404,578,1556,1577]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="2509">Holothuria platei</emphasis>
Ludwig, 1875
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. (A) Calcareous ring (r, radial plate; ir, interradial plate) (L=120 mm); (B) buttons and rods of dorsal body wall (L=92 mm); (C) irregular buttons of ventral body wall (L=92 mm); (D) regular buttons of ventral body wall (L=92 mm); (E) regular buttons of ventral tube feet (L=92 mm); (F) irregular buttons of ventral tube feet (L=92 mm); (G) rod-like buttons of ventral tube feet (L=92 mm). Scale bars: (A) 5 mm; (BG) 50
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m.
</paragraph>
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F. 10.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFCAFF84FE1AB4E6A170FB45" box="[417,588,1212,1233]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="2510">Holothuria platei</emphasis>
Ludwig, 1875
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. (A) Perforated plates of the ventral tube feet (L= 92 mm); (B) buttons of dorsal tube feet (L=92 mm); (C) rods of dorsal tube feet (L=92 mm); (D) rods of tentacle (L=72 mm); (E) rods of tentacle (L=120 mm); (F) enlargement of the extremities of tentacle rods (L=72 mm). Scale bars: (AE) 100
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m; (F) 50
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m.
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<emphasis id="33917554FFCAFF84FEDAB631A286F917" box="[353,442,1643,1667]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="2510">Ossicles</emphasis>
: in the body wall, tables and buttons. Tables very few, with only a single broken one observed in
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. Dorsal body wall with buttons (figure 9B); early buttons as rods (figure 9B). Ventral body wall with irregular (figure 9C) and regular (figure 9D) buttons. Buttons generally
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100120
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m long with six to seven pairs of holes. Ventral tube feet with perforated plates (figure 10A; from 70×
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140
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m up to 125×
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190
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m) located close to the end plate, regular (figure 9E) and irregular (figure 9F) buttons, some rod-like with perforated extremities (figure 9G); end plates ±
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800
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FE3CB631A2AAF916" bold="true" box="[391,406,1643,1666]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">m</emphasis>
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m across. Dorsal tube feet with a small end plate (±
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250
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m across), buttons (figure 10B) and rods (figure 10C); rods longer (up to
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210
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m long) than in the ventral tube feet (up to
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130
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m long). Few ossicles in the tentacles, in the shaft as well as in the extremities: spiny and knobbed rods,
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125400
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m long (figure 10D, E), sometimes with forked or tree-like extremities (figure 10F). No ossicles observed in the longitudinal muscles.
</paragraph>
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F. 11. Ossicles of longitudinal muscles presented by different members of the family
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FEC2B55BA131FA83" authorityName="Rowe" authorityYear="1969" box="[377,525,1281,1303]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="family">Holothuriidae</taxonomicName>
. (A)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FDE0B558A7B2FA83" authority="Cherbonnier, 1988" authorityName="Cherbonnier" authorityYear="1988" box="[603,1166,1281,1303]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="albofusca" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FDE0B558A093FA82" box="[603,943,1281,1303]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (Mertensiothuria) albofusca</emphasis>
Cherbonnier, 1988
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; (B)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FB61B558A01CFAA6" authority="Theel, 1886" authorityName="Theel" authorityYear="1886" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="fuscorubra" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FB61B558A19CFAA5" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (Mertensiothuria) fuscorubra</emphasis>
Théel, 1886
</taxonomicName>
; (C)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FCECB547A7CCFAA5" authority="Lesson, 1830" authorityName="Lesson" authorityYear="1830" box="[855,1264,1308,1330]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="hilla" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FCECB547A75EFAA5" box="[855,1122,1308,1330]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (Mertensiothuria) hilla</emphasis>
Lesson, 1830
</taxonomicName>
; (D)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FE12B56DA091FAD9" authority="(Brandt, 1835)" baseAuthorityName="Brandt" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[425,941,1334,1357]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="leucospilota" subGenus="Mertensiothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FE12B56DA038FAD8" box="[425,772,1335,1356]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (Mertensiothuria) leucospilota</emphasis>
(Brandt, 1835)
</taxonomicName>
; (E)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FC50B56DA130FAF3" authority="Selenka, 1867" authorityName="Selenka" authorityYear="1867" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="pervicax" subGenus="Stauropora">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FC50B56DA7C8FAD8" box="[1003,1268,1335,1356]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (Stauropora) pervicax</emphasis>
Selenka, 1867
</taxonomicName>
; (F)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FDF4B508A0E6FAF3" authority="(Selenka, 1867)" baseAuthorityName="Selenka" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[591,986,1361,1383]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="rigida" subGenus="Cystipus">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FDF4B508A01AFAF2" box="[591,806,1361,1383]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (Cystipus) rigida</emphasis>
(Selenka, 1867)
</taxonomicName>
; (G)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FBA5B508A787FAF3" box="[1054,1211,1362,1383]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Actinopyga" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FBA5B508A7ACFAF3" box="[1054,1168,1362,1383]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">Actinopyga</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
; (H)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FEC2B536A040FA16" authority="(Quoy and Gaimard, 1833)" baseAuthorityName="Quoy and Gaimard" baseAuthorityYear="1833" box="[377,892,1388,1410]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Actinopyga" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="mauritiana">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FEC2B536A161FA15" box="[377,605,1388,1409]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">Actinopyga mauritiana</emphasis>
(Quoy and Gaimard, 1833)
</taxonomicName>
; (J)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FC10B536A289FA08" authority="(Semper, 1868)" baseAuthorityName="Semper" baseAuthorityYear="1868" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Pearsonothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="graeffei">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FC10B536A7AEFA15" box="[939,1170,1388,1410]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">Pearsonothuria graeffei</emphasis>
(Semper, 1868)
</taxonomicName>
; (K)
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFCBFF85FE4CB5DDA076FA08" authority="Semper, 1868" authorityName="Semper" authorityYear="1868" box="[503,842,1414,1436]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="arenicola" subGenus="T .">
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FE4CB5DDA18DFA0F" box="[503,689,1414,1436]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">H. (T.) arenicola</emphasis>
Semper, 1868
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. Scale bars: (A, C, E, F) 50
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m; (B, D, GK) 100
<emphasis id="33917554FFCBFF85FE5CB5FBA2C8FA22" bold="true" box="[487,500,1441,1462]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="2511">m</emphasis>
m.
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</caption>
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FEDAB14AA2E9FEB3" box="[353,469,272,295]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Present note.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="015AA946FFC8FF86FEDAB175A09FFD93" blockId="26.[313,1269,175,1124]" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FEDAB175A2FEFED3" box="[353,450,303,327]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Ecology.</emphasis>
The species lives in the intertidal zone (Codoceo, 1976; Ramirez and Osorio, 2000). It is attached to rocks in the surf zone or concealed under large stones. When it lives in coarse sand bottoms it is covered with various debris (pebbles, pieces of algae, calcareous tube worms, etc.). The bushy tentacles are extended in the water column. However, intestinal content reveals mainly coarse detrital material (Codoceo, 1976). The species reaches high population densities: 20
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per m
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FDF9B1B4A170FD92" bold="true" box="[578,588,494,518]" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">2</emphasis>
(Ramirez and Osorio, 2000).
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FEDAB254A1BEFDB2" box="[353,642,526,550]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Geographical distribution.</emphasis>
At present only known from the
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locality (Juan Fernández Is.).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="015AA946FFC8FF86FEDAB214A123FD12" blockId="26.[313,1269,175,1124]" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FEDAB214A125FDF2" box="[353,537,590,614]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Proposed status.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC8FF86FD88B214A0A5FDF2" authority="Ludwig, 1898" authorityName="Ludwig" authorityYear="1898" box="[563,921,590,614]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="platei">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FD88B214A1CFFDF2" box="[563,755,590,614]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Holothuria platei</emphasis>
Ludwig, 1898
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(provisionally not referred to a known subgenus).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FEDAB2D4A2E2FD31" box="[353,478,654,677]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Comments.</emphasis>
With its huge bushy tentacles, the very large perforated plates in the tube feet, the large regular buttons with up to six or seven pairs of holes and the absence of ossicles in the longitudinal muscles,
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FCC1B294A704FD72" box="[890,1080,718,742]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Holothuria platei</emphasis>
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does not fit well within the genus
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FDB9B2B4A189FC92" box="[514,693,750,774]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Mertensiothuria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The bushy tentacles are very similar to the ones of
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC8FF86FEE7B354A0E6FCB2" authority="(Brandt, 1835)" baseAuthorityName="Brandt" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[348,986,781,806]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cinerascens" subGenus="Semperothuria">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FEE7B354A01FFCB1" box="[348,803,782,806]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Holothuria (Semperothuria) cinerascens</emphasis>
(Brandt, 1835)
</taxonomicName>
(see Massin, 1996) and to those of several species belonging to the subgenus
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC8FF86FC01B377A76FFCD1" authorityName="Deichmann" authorityYear="1958" box="[954,1107,813,837]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Selenkothuria" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FC01B377A76FFCD1" box="[954,1107,813,837]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Selenkothuria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Deichmann, 1938, 1958; Caso, 1954). This is most probably a convergence indicating a suspension feeding role of the tentacles. The ossicles of
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FCF6B334A08FFC11" box="[845,947,877,901]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">H. platei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are very different from
<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC8FF86FB6CB334A289FC31" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Holothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cinarescens">
<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FB6CB334A289FC31" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">H. cinarescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and from all the known species belonging to the subgenus
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FBEFB3D7A7D1FC31" box="[1108,1261,909,933]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">Selenkothuria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. As already noted by Deichmann (1958),
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<emphasis id="33917554FFC8FF86FCBEB3F4A05AFC51" box="[773,870,941,965]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512">H. platei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occupies a rather isolated position. Reduced tables and large buttons seem to belong to
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<taxonomicName id="C6E5D2C5FFC8FF86FC7BB397A74AFC71" box="[960,1142,973,997]" class="Holothuroidea" family="Holothuriidae" genus="Mertensiothuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Holothuriida" pageId="26" pageNumber="2512" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">Mertensiothuria</taxonomicName>
.
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However, because of the absence of ossicles in the longitudinal muscles, because of the huge size of the perforated plates of the tube feet and because of the size and shape of the tentacle ossicles, the species can no longer be maintained in the subgenus
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. Provisionally, it will not be referred to a known subgenus.
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