Chiridotidae

Chiridotidae
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

  1. 1 2 O'Loughlin, P. M. and D. Vandenspiegel. (2007). New apodid species from southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, 53-70.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Paulay, G. Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) 2014.
  4. ↑ Liao, Y., et al. (2007). Rediscovery of the sea cucumber "Toxodora" pacifica Ohshima, 1915 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 1435, 37-40.
  5. ↑ 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.
  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.


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