Echinocucumis Sars 1859 ...

• Main Authors: O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Skarbnik-López, Jessica, Mackenzie, Melanie, VandenSpiegel, Didier
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Ypsilothuriidae; Echinocucumis; Antarc*; Antarctica; E. Antarctica; Enderby Land
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12213627; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12213627

Echinocucumis Sars, 1859 Type species (type locality; diagnostic characters). Echinocucumis hispida (Barrett, 1857) (Norway; sub-spherical body with vertically up-turned oral and anal ends, body 10 mm wide (width of U-shape), ventral tube feet prominent, dorsal tube feet inconspicuous, plates with single composite marginal spine). Other assigned species (type localities; diagnostic characters). Echinocucumis globosa (Ohshima, 1915) (Kyushu; body spherical, 9.5 mm long, dorsal and ventral tube feet, ossicle spines reduced or absent); E. hispida var. atypica Deichmann, 1930 (Havana; spines sometimes central on plates, spines more slender and tall than E. hispida); E. kirrilyae O’Loughlin, 2009 (E Antarctica, Enderby Land; body fusiform, 6 mm long, tube feet ventral only, composite spines dendritic); E. multipodia Cherbonnier, 1965 (Cameroon; spherical body, 7 mm long, tube feet around body, scales lack spines); E. paratypica Ludwig & Heding, 1935 (Somalia; U-shaped body, 8.5 mm long, long tapered up-turned ... : Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Skarbnik-López, Jessica, Mackenzie, Melanie & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2015, Sea cucumbers of the Kerguelen Plateau, with descriptions of new genus and species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 59-93 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73 on page 77, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2015.73.07, http://zenodo.org/record/12213223 ...