Scoliorhapis H. L. Clark 1946

• Main Authors: Smirnov, Alexey V., Panina, Elena G., Sanamyan, Nadezhda P., Sanamyan, Karen E.
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• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Apodida; Chiridotidae; Scoliorhapis; Kamchatka; Sakhalin; Scotia Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6042785; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5B18031EFF93FFE2FF5AABA54632FBBC

Genus Scoliorhapis H.L. Clark, 1946 Scoliorhapis H. L. Clark, 1946: 461.—Rowe in Rowe and Gates, 1995: 267.— Smirnov, 1998: 519.— O’Loughlin and VandenSpiegel, 2010: 76.— Solis-Marin et al. , 2014: 324. Scoliodotella Oguro, 1961: 2. Scoliodota Heding, 1928: 319 (junior homonym of Scoliodota H. L. Clark, 1908). Diagnosis (after H. L. Clark, 1946 and O’Loughlin and VandenSpiegel, 2010, emended here). Taeniogyrinae with 10 or 12 peltato-digitate tentacles, each with up to 8 pairs of digits. Single polian vesicle. Intestine without loop. Ossicles: body wall ossicles sigmoid hooks or two-pointed sigmoids only; sigmoid hooks and two-pointed sigmoids scattered but some clastered or aligned; wheels lacking in body wall; tentacle ossicles bracket-shaped or rods. Type species. Scoliodota theelii Heding, 1928 (Eastern Australia, from Port Denison (North Queensland) till Port Davis Creek (Spencer Gulf, South Australia), Tasmania, Rottnest Is. (Western Australia), 0–5 m. Other species. Scoliorhapis biopearli O’Loughlin and VandenSpiegel, 2010 (Scotia Sea, South Shetland Is., 1544 m); Scoliorhapis dianthus Solis-Marin et al. , 2014 (Sea of Japan, Sado Is., 0.5–1 m); Scoliodota lindbergi Djakonov in Djakonov, Baranova and Saveleva, 1958 (North Japan Sea, Hokkaido, South Sakhalin, South Kurile Is, 0–65 m); Scoliorhapis massini O’Loughlin and VandenSpiegel, 2010 (Scotia Sea, Shag Rocks, 206 m; Falkland Islands, 118 m,); Scoliorhapis stepanovi sp. nov. (East Kamchatka, Avacha Bay, North Kuril Is., Paramushir Is., Middle Kurile Is., Matua Is., 10–24 m). Remarks. H. L. Clark (1908) established the new monotypic genus Scoliodota for Chiridota japonica v. Marenzeller, 1881, described from Japan. According to v. Marenzeller (1881) description this species had only sigmoid hooks that were clustered in the papillae. Clark used the following characters to diagnose the new genus Scoliodota : “Tentacles 10. Digits 10 or more. Wheels wanting; calcareous particles sigmoid bodies only, commonly arranged in groups” (Clark, 1908: 125). Clark ...