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Psolidiella mollis
Creators
- 1. Honorary Associate, Marine Science, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, GPO Box 666, Australia
- 2. Marine Research Group of The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, 1 Gardenia Street, Blackburn 3130, Australia
- 3. Research Associate, Marine Science, Museum Victoria
- 4. Volunteer, Marine Science, Museum Victoria
- 5. Marine Science, Museum Victoria
Description
Brood-protection by Psolidiella mollis (Ludwig and Heding)
Psolidiella mollis (Ludwig & Heding, 1935) is an additional species of Antarctic dendrochirotid holothuroid that broodprotects in marsupia (see Table 1). Males have a long genital papilla (NMV F157414), and females have up to five anterior interradial internal marsupia (fig. 3a; NMV F104865). One female from Bouvet Island (fig. 3b; NMV F104882) has 46 and 60 differentiated embryos (3–4 mm long) in each of two marsupia, and 52, 53, and 60 undifferentiated eggs or embryos (1.3 mm long) in each of three marsupia, evidence of two fertilization events.
Notes
Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Eichler, John, Altoff, Leon, Falconer, Audrey, Mackenzie, Melanie, Whitfield, Emily & Rowley, Chris, 2009, Observations of reproductive strategies for some dendrochirotid holothuroids (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), pp. 215-220 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.19, http://zenodo.org/record/10665943
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMV
- Family
- Cucumariidae
- Genus
- Psolidiella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- F157414, F104865, F104882
- Order
- Dendrochirotida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ludwig and Heding
- Species
- mollis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psolidiella mollis (and, 1935) sec. O'Loughlin, Eichler, Altoff, Falconer, Mackenzie, Whitfield & Rowley, 2009