Kolostoneura Becher 1909 ...

• Main Authors: O'Loughlin, P. Mark, VandenSpiegel, Didier
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Apodida; Chiridotidae; Kolostoneura; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Scotia Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12212330; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12212330

Kolostoneura Becher, 1909 Kolostoneura Becher, 1909: 42.—H. L. Clark, 1921: 164.— Mortensen, 1925: 384–386.— Heding, 1928: 277, 278.— Pawson, 1970: 44.— Smirnov, 1998: 519. Diagnosis (of type species, following Dendy and Hindle 1907 and Mortensen 1925). Taeniogyrinid genus with 10 peltato-digitate tentacles, each with 12 digits increasing in size distally; tentacle rods present; lacking ossicles in body wall; calcareous ring present, 5 subrectangular, transversely elongate radial and 5 subequal, interradial plates, lacking anterior projections / teeth; single polian vesicle; madreporite canal long, straight, madreporite distant from water ring; branched gonad tubules; ciliated funnels present. Type species. Rhabdomolgus novae-zealandiae Dendy and Hindle, 1907 (New Zealand, Chatham Is, coastal shallows). Other species. Kolostoneura griffithsi sp. nov. (Antarctica, Scotia Sea, 506 m). Remarks. Smirnov (1998) noted that although Kolostoneura lacks ossicles in the body wall its morphological characters place it ... : Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2010, A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida), pp. 61-95 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67 on page 75, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2010.67.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12212210 ...