Psolus Oken 1815

• Main Authors: O'Loughlin, Mark, Whitfield, Emily
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Dendrochirotida; Psolidae; Psolus; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6196613; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6196613

Psolus Oken, 1815 Diagnosis. Species of Psolidae with large imbricating or contiguous dorsal and lateral scales; ventro-lateral scales at margin clearly demarcated from thin sole that lacks conspicuous scales; tube feet absent dorsally and laterally, except sometimes present orally and anally. Remarks. In their key to genera of Psolidae, O’Loughlin & Maric 2008 stated that the conspicuous dorsal and lateral scales of species of Psolus lacked calcareous towers. A close dorsal and lateral cover of apically spinous towers on the scales is the diagnostically distinctive character of one of the new species described below. The diagnosis in O’Loughlin & Maric 2008 has been appropriately emended here. Published as part of O'Loughlin, Mark & Whitfield, Emily, 2010, New species of Psolus Oken from Antarctica (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae), pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 2528 on page 62, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.294189