Crucella Gutt 1990

• Main Author: Thandar, Ahmed S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Paracucumidae; Crucella; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Charcot; Cabeza; Antarc*; Antarctique*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687794; https://zenodo.org/record/5687794

Genus Crucella Gutt, 1990 Diagnosis (amended from O’Loughlin et al. 2009). Body with narrowed tail, hard to parchment-like body wall; tentacles 10 with the ventral two reduced; tube feet evenly distributed around entire body; calcareous ring simple, without posterior prolongations; body-wall ossicles as crosses with four regular or irregular arms, small-knobbed perforated plates with or without a secondary mesh thickening and end spine; posterior body wall with multi-layered ossicles. Type species. Thyone scotiae Vaney, 1906. : Published as part of Thandar, Ahmed S., 2019, On some lesser known sea cucumbers in the Natural History Museum, UK (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 361-381 in Zootaxa 4688 (3) on page 363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3516791 : {"references": ["Gutt, J. (1990) New Antarctic holothurians (Echinodermata). I. Five new species with four new genera of the order Dendrochirota. Zoologica Scripta, 19, 101 - 117. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1990. tb 00243. x", "O'Loughlin, P. M., Eugenia Manjon-Cabeza, M. & Moya Ruiz, F. (2009) Antarctic holothuroids from the Bellingshausen Sea, with descriptions of new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Zootaxa, 2016 (1), 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2016.1.1", "Vaney, C. (1906) Echinoderms, Holothuries. Expedition Antarctique Francaise. In: Expedition Antarctique Francaise (1903 - 1905) commandee par le Dr. Jean Charcot, Sciences naturelles, Documents Scientifiques. Masson, Paris, pp. 1 - 30."]}