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Echinopsolus Gutt 1990

Creators

  • 1. Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D- 81247 München, Germany. E-mail: jens. m. bohn @ gmail. com Department Biologie II, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Grosshaderner Strasse 2, D- 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. E-mail: hess @ bio. lmu. de

Description

Genus Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990

Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990: 112. Type species: E. acanthocola Gutt, 1990, by original designation.

Microchoerus Gutt, 1990: 105 [non Wood 1844]. Type species: M. splendidus Gutt, 1990, by original designation. [Microchoerus Gutt, 1990 is a junior homonym of Microchoerus Wood, 1844]

Diagnosis [emended]: Cucumariidae with 10 tentacles, the two ventral considerably smaller. Sexes separate and dimorphic, genital papilla large digitiform in males, usually inconspicuous in females, five interradial anterior brood pouches in females (not present in males). Spermatozoa with fusiform head and hollow cylinder-like midpiece encircling anterior end of flagellum; multiple spermatozoa bundled by agglutinating tails to bunch-like spermatozeugmata. Calcareous deposits derived from simple multi-perforate plates.

Notes

Published as part of Bohn, Jens Michael, 2014, The Antarctic holothurian genus Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990 (Dendrochirotida, Cucumariidae): brood pouches, spermatozoa, spermatozeugmata and taxonomic implications, pp. 573-591 in Zootaxa 3841 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4928464

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E87EBF344B31CFF64FE89FBD429E3

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.7 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4928464 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB7FF93F34FB317FFF3FFACFF942B76 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/B07019EC-366E-4388-B744-88F6584E7F7D (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/038E87EBF344B31CFF64FE89FBD429E3 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/183550868 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/5413/taxon/038E87EBF344B31CFF64FE89FBD429E3.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Psolidae
Genus
Echinopsolus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Dendrochirotida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Gutt
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990 sec. Bohn, 2014

References

  • Gutt, J. (1990) New Antarctic holothurians (Echinodermata) - I. Five new species with four new genera of the order Dendrochirotida. Zoologica Scripta, 19, 101 - 117. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1990. tb 00243. x
  • Wood, S. V. (1844) Record of the discovery of an Alligator with several new Mammalia in the freshwater strata at Hordwell. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, 14, 349 - 351. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 037454809495192