Chiridotidae is 'n familie van seekomkommers in die orde Apodida.
Beskrywing en eienskappe
Lede van hierdie familie het 10, 12, of 18 vingeragtige tentakels waarvan tussen 3 en 10 per sy voorkom. Hulle ontbreek podia, radiale kanale, en 'n respiratoriese boom.
Die sagte liggaamswand word deur ossikels ondersteun wat gewoonlik wielvormig is en ses speke het.[1]
Sommige spesies het haak- of staafvormige ossikels of benerige, sekelvormige liggame[2]
Lys van genera
Genera sluit in:[3]
- genus Archedota O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin & VandenSpiegel, 2007[1]—1 spesie
- genus Chiridota Eschscholtz, 1829 -- 33 spesies
- genus Kolostoneura Becher, 1909 -- 2 spesies
- genus Neotoxodora Liao, Pawson & Liu, 2007[4]—1 spesies
- genus Ovalidota Pawson, 2004[5]—1 spesie
- genus Paradota Ludwig & Heding, 1935 -- 3 spesies
- genus Polycheira Clark, 1908 -- 2 spesies
- genus Psammothuria Rao, 1968 -- 1 spesie
- genus Rowedota O'Loughlin & VandenSpiegel, 2010[6]—5 spesies
- genus Scoliorhapis Clark, 1946 -- 5 spesies
- genus Sigmodota Studer, 1876 -- 3 spesies
- genus Taeniogyrus Semper, 1867 -- 17 spesies
Verwysings
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↑ 1,0 1,1 O'Loughlin, P. M. and D. Vandenspiegel. (2007). New apodid species from southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, 53-70.
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↑ Inoue, J. and H. Kajihara. (2012). Redescription of Scoliorhapis lindbergi comb. nov. (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida: Chiridotidae), with special reference to the ultrastructure of sigmoid bodies. Species Diversity 17 15-20.
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↑ Paulay, G. Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) 2014.
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↑ Liao, Y., et al. (2007). Rediscovery of the sea cucumber "Toxodora" pacifica Ohshima, 1915 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 1435, 37-40.
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↑ Pawson, D. L. (2004). Ovalidota milleri, a new genus and species of bathyal sea cucumber from the Caribbean Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 561, 1-6.
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↑ O'Loughlin, P. M. and D. Vandenspiegel. (2010). A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67(1) 61-95.