Sclerodactylidae

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

Sclerodactylidae
Eupentacta quinquesemita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Holothuroidea
Order: Dendrochirotida
Family: Sclerodactylidae
Panning, 1902 [1]
Genera
See text

Members of the family are characterised by the complex ring of ossicles they have near the anterior end. These may or may not take the form of a short tube but are quite unlike the long tubes found in the phyllophorids. The tentacles number ten to twenty.[2]

Genera

The World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following genera:[3]

  • genus Afrocucumis Deichmann, 1944
  • genus Apentamera Deichmann, 1941
  • genus Athyone Deichmann, 1941
  • genus Cladolabes Brandt, 1835
  • genus Clarkiella Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954
  • genus Coronatum Martins & Souto in Martins, Souto & Menegola, 2012
  • genus Deichmannia Cherbonnier, 1958
  • genus Engeliella Cherbonnier, 1968
  • genus Eupentacta Deichmann, 1938
  • genus Euthyonidiella Heding & Panning, 1954
  • genus Globosita Cherbonnier, 1958
  • genus Havelockia Pearson, 1903
  • genus Neopentamera Deichmann, 1941
  • genus Neothyone Deichmann, 1941
  • genus Ohshimella Heding & Panning, 1954
  • genus Pachythyone Deichmann, 1941
  • genus Pseudothyone Panning, 1949
  • genus Sclerodactyla Ayres, 1851
  • genus Sclerothyone Thandar, 1989
  • genus Temparena Thandar, 1989
  • genus Thandarum Martinez & Brogger, 2012

See also

References
  1. Sclerodactylidae Panning, 1902 ITIS. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. Sclerodactylidae Digital Nature Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. Vanden Berghe, Edward (2010). "Sclerodactylidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
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