Aslia pygmaea

• Main Authors: Prata, Jéssica, Manso, Cynthia Lara De Castro, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Cucumariidae; Aslia; Aslia pygmaea; Buttons; Christoffersen; Pawson; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812076; https://zenodo.org/record/3812076

Aslia pygmaea (Théel, 1886) Colochirus pygmaea Théel, 1886: 83, pl. IV, fig. 9. Pentacta pygmaeus : Deichmann 1930: 180, pl. XXI, figs 10–16; Tommasi 1969: 14. Ocnus pygmaeus : Miller & Pawson 1984: 17, figs 10–11. Aslia pygmaea : Pawson et al . 2010: 15–17, figs 6c, 9a–e; Miranda et al . 2012: 141; Miranda et al . 2015: 116, figs 5a–b. Material examined. No material could be analyzed. The data given below is based on the literature. Type locality. Bahia coast, Brazil (Deichmann 1930). Diagnosis. Barrel-shaped body, with conspicuous tube feet confined to the radii, 30–70 mm long. Color light brown to chocolate brown, ends of tube feet lighter. Mouth concealed by five prominent oral valves. Body wall rigid with buttons of 10 knobs (45–80 μm long), and deep cups (45–55 μm long) (Pawson et al . 2010). Geographical distribution. Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Brazil (from Cear to Bahia in the NE coast) (Deichmann 1930; Pawson et al . 2010; Miranda et al . 2012). According Pawson et al . (2010), this species occurs down to 37 m deep. : Published as part of Prata, Jéssica, Manso, Cynthia Lara De Castro & Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, 2020, Dendrochirotida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the northeastern coast of Brazil, pp. 401-453 in Zootaxa 4755 (3) on pages 405-406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3735164 : {"references": ["Theel, H. (1886) Report on Holothurioidea. Reports on the results of dredging, under the Supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877 - 78), in the Caribbean Sea (1879 - 80), and along the Eastern Coast of the United States during the Summer of 1880, by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer \" Blake \". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 13, 1 - 21.", "Deichmann, E. (1930) The Holothurians of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 71 (3), 42 - 276.", "Tommasi, L. R. (1969) Lista dos Holothuroidea recentes do Brasil. In: Contribuicoes Avulsas do Instituto Oceanografico. Serie Oceanografia Biologica. Vol. 15. Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, pp. 1 - 29.", "Miller, J. E. & Pawson, D. L. (1984) Holothurians (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises, 7 (1), 1 - 79.", "Pawson, D. L., Pawson, D. J. & King, R. A. (2010) A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Zootaxa, 2449 (1), 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2449.1.1", "Miranda, A. L. S., Lima, M. L. F., Sovierzoski, H. H. & Correia, M. D. (2012) Inventory of the Echinodermata collection from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas. Biota Neotropica, 12 (2), 135 - 146. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1676 - 06032012000200014", "Miranda, L. S. A., Sovierzoski, H. H. & Correia, D. M. (2015) Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) from reef ecosystems on the central coast of Alagoas, Brazil, with a new record to South Atlantic Ocean. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 56, 111 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.21411 / CBM. A. 5 C 397049"]}