Cucamba psolidiformis Vaney, syn. nov. ...

• Main Authors: O'Loughlin, Mark, Manjón-Cabeza, Eugenia, Ruiz, Francina Moya
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Cucumariidae; Cucamba; Cucamba psolidiformis; Antarc*; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6219726; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6219726

Cucamba psolidiformis (Vaney) syn. nov., comb. nov. Table 1. Cucumaria psolidiformis Vaney, 1908: 27 –28, pl. 2 figs 17, 18, pl. 4 figs 51–53.— Ekman, 1925: 89 –92, fig. 19.— Panning, 1949: 416.— Panning, 1955: 38.— Pawson, 1969: pl. 22 map 2. Cucumaria conspicua Vaney, 1908: 29, pl. 2 figs 15, 16, pl. 5 fig. 67.— Panning, 1949: 416.— Panning, 1955: 38.— Pawson, 1969: pl. 22 map 2 (new synonym). Cucumaria armata Vaney, 1908: 31 –32, pl. 5 figs 57, 58 (new synonym). Caespitugo diversipes Gutt, 1990: 102 –104, figs 1–4, table 1.— Gutt, 1991: 323 –324.—O’Loughin et al., 1994: 549, 555, table 2 (new synonym). Remarks. Cucumaria psolidiformis Vaney, 1908 has a circum-polar distribution (M. O’Loughlin pers. obs.). The distinguishing characters of Cucumaria psolidiformis Vaney and Caespitugo diversipes Gutt, 1990 are: hard parchment-like body wall; long thin tail; mouth and anus terminal; 10 dendritic tentacles with ventral pair small; distinctive radial tube feet; inconspicuous interradial tube feet; irregular, ... : Published as part of O'Loughlin, Mark, Manjón-Cabeza, Eugenia & Ruiz, Francina Moya, 2009, Antarctic holothuroids from the Bellingshausen Sea, with descriptions of new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 2016 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185959 ...