Biology:Phyllophoridae

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Short description: Family of sea cucumbers

Phyllophoridae
Neothyonidium magnum (Burrowing sea cucumber) at night.jpg
Neothyonidium magnum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Holothuroidea
Order: Dendrochirotida
Family: Phyllophoridae
Östergren, 1907 [1]
Genera
See text

Phyllophoridae is a family of sea cucumbers, marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and feeding tentacles.

Members of the family are characterised by a complex ring of calcareous ossicles arranged in a tube, making a mosaic pattern. The tentacles number ten to twenty-five. Some members have spindle-shaped bodies whilst others are buried in the substrate and adopt a U-shaped form.[2]

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Phyllophoridae:[3]

  • Allothyone Panning, 1949
  • Anthochirus Chang, 1948
  • Cladolella Heding & Panning, 1954
  • Ekmanothyone Massin, 1993
  • Hemithyone Pawson, 1963
  • Lipotrapeza Clark, 1938
  • Massinium Samyn & Thandar, 2003
  • Neopentadactyla Deichmann, 1944
  • Neothyonidium Deichmann, 1938
  • Pentadactyla Hutton, 1878
  • Pentamera Ayres, 1852
  • Phyllophorella Heding & Panning, 1954
  • Phyllophorus Grube, 1840
  • Phyllostauros O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin, Barmos & VandenSpiegel, 2012
  • Phyrella Heding & Panning, 1954
  • Pseudoplacothuria Yamana & Kohtsuka, 2018
  • Selenkiella Heding & Panning, 1954
  • Stolus Selenka, 1867
  • Thorsonia Heding, 1940
  • Thyone Oken, 1815
  • Thyonina Thandar, 1990
  • Triasemperia O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2014

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2491924 entry