Psolidium Ludwig ...

• Main Authors: O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Ahearn, Cynthia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Psolidae; Psolidium; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10878554; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10878554

Psolidium Ludwig Psolidium Ludwig, 1886: 9.— Mortensen, 1927: 413.— Deichmann, 1941: 141–43.— Deichmann, 1947: 336.— Lambert, 1996: 21. Diagnosis (see O’Loughlin and Maric, 2008). Dendrochirotid holothuroids; small, up to 40 mm long; mid-body arched dorsally in transverse section, flat ventrally; dorsal and lateral body covered with imbricating scales, usually macroscopically conspicuous, irregular in size and arrangement; scales decreasing in size ventro-laterally, orally and anally; lacking large oral valves; extensible oral cone, anterior to anteriordorsal to dorsal orientation; extensible anal cone, posterior to posterior-dorsal to dorsal orientation; tube feet dorsally and laterally in mid-body, pass through scales. Sole distinct, oval to elongate; discrete margin created by junction of small imbricating ventro-lateral scales with thinwalled, usually calcareous, sole that lacks scales; peripheral band of tube feet, may be discontinuous across the inter-radii anteriorly and posteriorly; peripheral tube ... : Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark & Ahearn, Cynthia, 2008, Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic species of Psolidium Ludwig (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae), pp. 23-42 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65 on page 25, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2008.65.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10665899 ...