Mesothuria rugosa Herouard 1912

• Main Authors: Gebruk, Andrey V., Solis-Marin, Francisco A., Billett, David S. M., Rogacheva, Antonina V., Tyler, Paul A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Holothuriida; Mesothuriidae; Mesothuria; Mesothuria rugosa; Vincent Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10536905; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6931320BFFD4FFFAFE1C1318F3EFFBE2

Mesothuria rugosa Hérouard, 1912 (Figure 12) Mesothuria rugosa – Hérouard, 1912: 1–3, text fig. 1; 1923: 19–21, pl. 1, figs. 11–21, pl. 2, figs. 1–2; Hansen, 1956: 46, fig. 14c; Deichmann, 1930: 98–99. Holothuria murrayi – Théel, 1886b: 6. Material examined None. Type material Holotype, MOM, Princesse-Alice , St. 1150, 25 July 1901, 16 ◦ 12 ′ N, 24 ◦ 43 ′ 45" W, 3890 m. Type locality Atlantic Ocean, near Cape Verde Islands, 3890 m. Diagnosis Oval body, flattened, ventral sole developed. Anus ventral, situated in small depression. Body almost uniformly covered with very thin pedicels arranged in broad bands; these are absent in mid-ventral ambulacrum. Gonads in one tuft situated to right of dorsal mesentery. Ossicles tables with large disks, with seven or eight holes; spire high, ending in three arms, often of equal size, with some small teeth on ends (Figure 12); in tubefeet, typical small end plates and plates as in the bodywall, no supporting rods present in tubefeet. Rim of table disk strongly undulated, often irregular. Remarks This might be not a separate species, see remarks for M. murrayi . Distribution In the Caribbean – off Guadeloupe and St Vincent Islands, also off Cape Verde (Figure 9). Bathymetric range Depth 1600–3890 m. Published as part of Gebruk, Andrey V., Solis-Marin, Francisco A., Billett, David S. M., Rogacheva, Antonina V. & Tyler, Paul A., 2012, Review of the genus Zygothuria Perrier, 1898 and the Atlantic group of species of the genus Mesothuria Ludwig, 1894 (Synallactidae: Holothuroidea) with description of the new species Mesothuria milleri sp. nov., pp. 265-348 in Journal of Natural History 46 on pages 308-309, DOI:10.1080/00222933.2011.638423, http://zenodo.org/record/5202428