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A new genus and three new species of deep-sea holothuroids from the west coast of South Africa (Echinodermata)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2001

Ahmed S. Thandar
Ahmed S. Thandar
Affiliation:
University of Durban-Westville, Private Bag X54001, Durban, 4000, South Africa
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Abstract

One new genus and three new species of deep-sea holothuroids, taken by the South African Division of Sea Fisheries R.S. Africana II routine trawls, off the west coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa in 1959, are described. A new genus Psolidothuria, perhaps referable to the dactylochirotid family Vaneyellidae, is erected for the new species P. octodactyla. The remaining new species are Paracucumaria capense, in the dendrochirotid family Cucumariidae, and Laetmogone perplexa, in the elasipodid family Laetmogonidae. P. capense was originally described as Trachythyone ?parva (Ludwig) by Thandar (1991). The diagnosis of the family Vaneyellidae is amended to accommodate the new genus.

Keywords

Holothuroideanew genusnew speciesVaneyellidaeCucumariidaeLaetmogonidae
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Zoology , Volume 244 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 79 - 88
Copyright
© 1998 The Zoological Society of London

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