Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres 1854 ...

• Main Authors: Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J., King, Rachael A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Phyllophoridae; Pentamera; Pentamera pulcherrima; Folly Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6208491; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6208491

Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1854 Figure 6 a, 18 Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1854: 121; Pawson, 1977: 12, text-fig. 16. Cucumaria pulcherrima.— Deichmann, 1930: 157, pl.11 figs.13–16. Material examined. SERTC 1046, Inlet Creek, behind Sullivan’s Island, SC, 32°47.7'N, 79°49.24'W, 2.4 m, coll. SERTC Staff, May 13 2004. SERTC 1047, Folly Beach, SC, 32°39.2'N, 79°56.5'W, coll. J. Monck, April 9 2004. SERTC 2130, off Charleston Harbor, 32°30.28'N, 79°38.56'W, 20.1 m, coll. SERTC Staff, April 30 2005. SERTC 2458, southeast end of Folly Island, SC, 32°38.56'N, 79°58.47'W, 0.7 m, coll. D. Knott, February 26 2002. SERTC 2208, Edisto Beach, SC, 0.5 m, coll. GML Staff, March 19 1973. Diagnosis. Body about 5 cm in length, with anterior and posterior ends upturned. Color white to pinkish to dirty brown. Feet confined to radii. Tentacles 10, bushy, with the 2 ventral smaller. Skin thin, wrinkled and stiff because of the abundance of ossicles. Ossicles regular, oval tables (to 70 μm long) with 4 holes and a low spire, ... : Published as part of Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J. & King, Rachael A., 2010, A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 2449 on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195134 ...