Thyonina articulata
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Description
Thyonina articulata (Vaney, 1908)
Thyone articulata Vaney, 1908a: 295, 1908b: 426, pl. 4, figs. 43, 44.
Thyonina articulata Thandar, 1990: 217 (syn. & records), figs. 1d, 8, 10e-f.
Type Unknown, perhaps in Scotland.
Type locality Saldanha Bay, WCP.
Material examined
SAM-A27973, UCT Ecol. Surv., Van Veen, False Bay, St. FAL 419, 34 o 12.5' S, 18 o 37' E, 15.V. 1961, 48 m, 9 spec; SAM-A27974, St. FAL 434, 34 o 15.2' S, 18 o 33.2' E, 16.v. 1961, 42 m, 3 spec., SAM-A27975, St. FAL 937, False Bay, WCP, 25.i.1967, 19 spec.
Distribution Saldanha Bay to Port Elizabeth, 16- 162 m.
Remarks
The specimens at hand are juvenile, measuring 2.5 mm x 1.75 mm to 3 mm x 2 mm. They are barrelshaped, uniformly white, with both anal teeth and papillae. The podia are mostly in ambulacra, in 2-4 rows, with a few also in the interambulacra. The material is clearly referable to the well known southern African temperate endemic, Thyonina articulata (Vaney, 1908) but in at least two specimens smooth, four-holed plates (ca. 55 µm), first described from the anal region by Cherbonnier (1952), are also sparingly distributed in the general body wall. This is perhaps a juvenile character. The calcareous ring, despite its early stage in development, is typical as are the end-plates of the podia. However, Thandar (1990) drew attention to a sympatric, atypical form of the species, dredged from Dassen Island (west coast) at 29 m with the bottom material also described as shelly sand. They are barrel-shaped, 24-42 mm long, yellowish in colour with brownish blotches, with the calcareous ring usually consisting of a single series of interradial elements, the end-plates seldom with a complex rim and the retractors originating as 1-3 strands. Natasen Moodley (2000), on the other hand, draws attention to another sympatric, atypical form dredged from False Bay, which is U-shaped, much longer (up to 62 mm) than the typical form but with a similar complement of spicules. Regrettably these three forms must await molecular investigations.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.1697.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5107079 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/2219FFBFF5208746A03AF42E93345C38 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/DE2087C7F5248742A0ADF63391715B68 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FAL , UCT , WCP
- Event date
- 1961-05-15 , 1961-05-16 , 1967-01-25
- Family
- Phyllophoridae
- Genus
- Thyonina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- FAL 419 , FAL 434 , FAL 937
- Order
- Dendrochirotida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Vaney
- Species
- articulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1961-05-15 , 1961-05-16 , 1967-01-25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thyonina articulata (Vaney, 1908) sec. Thandar, 2008
References
- Vaney, C. (1908 a) Les Holothuries recueillies par l'Expedition Antarctique Ecossaise. Zoologische Anzeiger, 33, 290 - 299.
- Vaney, C. (1908 b) Les Holothuries de l'Expedition Antarctique Nationale Ecossaise. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 46 (part II: No. 18), 405 - 441, 5 pls.
- Thandar, A. S. (1990) The phyllophorid holothurians of southern Africa with the erection of a new genus. South African Journal of Zoology, 25 (4), 207 - 223.
- Cherbonnier, G. (1952) Contribution a la connaisance des holothuries de l'Afrique du sud. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 33, 469 - 509,16 pls.
- Natasen Moodley, M. (2000) A taxonomic study of some holothuroid echinoderms taken from southern African waters west of Port Elizabeth, in the collections of the South African Museum. MSc. dissertation, University of Durban- Westville, South Africa. 170 pp.