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Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres 1854

Description

Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1854

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Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1854: 121; Pawson, 1977: 12, text-fig. 16. Cucumaria pulcherrima.— Deichmann, 1930: 157, pl.11 figs.13–16.

Material examined. SERTC 1046, Inlet Creek, behind Sullivan’s Island, SC, 32°47.7'N, 79°49.24'W, 2.4 m, coll. SERTC Staff, May 13 2004. SERTC 1047, Folly Beach, SC, 32°39.2'N, 79°56.5'W, coll. J. Monck, April 9 2004. SERTC 2130, off Charleston Harbor, 32°30.28'N, 79°38.56'W, 20.1 m, coll. SERTC Staff, April 30 2005. SERTC 2458, southeast end of Folly Island, SC, 32°38.56'N, 79°58.47'W, 0.7 m, coll. D. Knott, February 26 2002. SERTC 2208, Edisto Beach, SC, 0.5 m, coll. GML Staff, March 19 1973.

Diagnosis. Body about 5 cm in length, with anterior and posterior ends upturned. Color white to pinkish to dirty brown. Feet confined to radii. Tentacles 10, bushy, with the 2 ventral smaller. Skin thin, wrinkled and stiff because of the abundance of ossicles. Ossicles regular, oval tables (to 70 μm long) with 4 holes and a low spire, composed of 2 rods ending in 2–3 blunt teeth. A few thin, elongate plates with 2 central holes, and a variable number of smaller holes near the ends, may be found. A great number of irregular plates crowded around anus.

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Published as part of Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J. & King, Rachael A., 2010, A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 2449 on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195134

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phyllophoridae
Genus
Pentamera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Dendrochirotida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Ayres
Species
pulcherrima
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1854 sec. Pawson, Pawson & King, 2010

References

  • Ayres, W. O. (1854) Observations upon the Holothurioidea of our coast. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, (1852) 4, 121 - 256.
  • Deichmann, E. (1930) The holothurians of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 71: 43 - 226. Deichmann, E. (1940) Report of the Holothurians, collected by the Harvard-Havana Expeditions 1938 and 1939, with a revision of the Molpadonia of the Atlantic Ocean. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural " Felipe Poey ", 14, 183 - 240.