Echinocucumis kirrilyae O'Loughlin, 2009, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: O'Loughlin, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Ypsilothuriidae; Echinocucumis; Echinocucumis kirrilyae; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6223166; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6223166

Echinocucumis kirrilyae sp. nov. Figures 1a–d; table 1. Material examined. Holotype. Eastern Antarctica, off Enderby Land, 65°48'S 53°16'E, 180–209 m, BANZARE stn 41, 24–25 Jan 1930, SAM K2457. Diagnosis. Body 6 mm long (excluding tentacles); body wall calcareous with test of irregular, imbricating, spired scales; body fusiform, lacking oral and anal cones; mouth anterior; anus dorso-posterior; 10 sub-equal sub-digitiform tentacles, with trunk and few short branches; single irregular spaced radial series of latero-ventral tube feet, a few tube feet on anterior and posterior mid-ventral radius; lacking tube feet dorsally and laterally; calcareous ring lacking posterior prolongations (ring fragmented); gonad tubules branched proximally; longitudinal muscles flat. Body wall ossicles single-layered perforated plates, up to 424 µ m diameter, irregular form around typically 4 large central perforations, tree-like spire arising centrally on plate between large perforations, up to 280 µ m high, thick basal trunk ... : Published as part of O'Loughlin, Mark, 2009, BANZARE holothuroids (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 2196 on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189493 ...