Chiridotidae
| Chiridotidae | |
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| Chiridota heheva | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Holothuroidea |
| Order: | Apodida |
| Suborder: | Synaptina |
| Family: | Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898 |
| Genera | |
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Chiridotidae is a family of sea cucumbers.
Description and characteristics
Members of this family have 10, 12, or 18 pelto-digitate tentacles (bearing 3-10 digits on each side). They lack podia, radial canals and respiratory tree.
The soft body wall is supported by ossicles which are generally wheel-shaped with six spokes.[1] Some species have hook-shaped or rod-shaped ossicles or spiny sigmoid bodies.[2]
List of genera
Genera include:[3]
- genus Archedota O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin & VandenSpiegel, 2007[1]—1 species
- genus Chiridota Eschscholtz, 1829 -- 33 species
- genus Kolostoneura Becher, 1909 -- 2 species
- genus Neotoxodora Liao, Pawson & Liu, 2007[4]—1 species
- genus Ovalidota Pawson, 2004[5]—1 species
- genus Paradota Ludwig & Heding, 1935 -- 3 species
- genus Polycheira Clark, 1908 -- 2 species
- genus Psammothuria Rao, 1968 -- 1 species
- genus Rowedota O'Loughlin & VandenSpiegel, 2010[6]—5 species
- genus Scoliorhapis Clark, 1946 -- 5 species
- genus Sigmodota Studer, 1876 -- 3 species
- genus Taeniogyrus Semper, 1867 -- 17 species
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 O'Loughlin, P. M. and D. Vandenspiegel. (2007). New apodid species from southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, 53-70.
- ↑ Inoue, J. and H. Kajihara. (2012). Redescription of Scoliorhapis lindbergi comb. nov. (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida: Chiridotidae), with special reference to the ultrastructure of sigmoid bodies. Species Diversity 17 15-20.
- ↑ Paulay, G. Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) 2014.
- ↑ Liao, Y., et al. (2007). Rediscovery of the sea cucumber "Toxodora" pacifica Ohshima, 1915 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 1435, 37-40.
- ↑ Pawson, D. L. (2004). Ovalidota milleri, a new genus and species of bathyal sea cucumber from the Caribbean Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 561, 1-6.
- ↑ O'Loughlin, P. M. and D. Vandenspiegel. (2010). A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67(1) 61-95.