Psolidae Forbes 1841

• Main Authors: Mackenzie, Melanie, Whitfield, Emily
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Psolidae; Pacific; Forbes; Pawson; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5669786; https://zenodo.org/record/5669786

Psolidae Forbes, 1841 Diagnosis (see O’Loughlin & Maric 2008). Body flattened, with well-defined ventral sole. Dorsal surface of body invested by imbricating scales. Ventral sole soft, surrounded by tube feet. Mouth and anus dorsally turned. Remarks. For synonymy, discussion, and a key to genera of Psolidae see O’Loughlin & Maric (2008), with removal of ‘lacking calcareous towers’ from point one emended in O’Loughlin & Whitfield (2010). The authors recommend here that ‘thin calcareous’ also be omitted from the point one description of the sole to allow for the inclusion of Ceto which has a thicker, leathery sole. The diagnosis of Psolidae above does not admit Neopsolidium Pawson, 1964. There are no Australian species of Echinopsolus, Lissothuria or Ekkentropelma . : Published as part of Mackenzie, Melanie & Whitfield, Emily, 2011, An overview of the Australian psolid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae) with the description of 5 new species, pp. 21-36 in Zootaxa 3037 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.278771 : {"references": ["Forbes, E. (1841) A history of British starfishes and other animals of the class Echinodermata. John van Voorst: London. 267 pp.", "O'Loughlin, P. M. & Maric, D. (2008) Australian species of Psolidium Ludwig (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 65, 1 - 22.", "O'Loughlin P. M. & Whitfield E. (2010) New species of Psolus Oken from Antarctica (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae). Zootaxa, 2528, 61 - 68.", "Pawson, D. L. (1964) The Holothuroidea collected by the Royal Society Expedition to Southern Chile, 1958 - 1959. Pacific Science, 18 (4), 453 - 70."]}