Psolidae Forbes 1841
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Psolidae Forbes, 1841
Diagnosis (see O’Loughlin & Maric 2008). Body flattened, with well-defined ventral sole. Dorsal surface of body invested by imbricating scales. Ventral sole soft, surrounded by tube feet. Mouth and anus dorsally turned.
Remarks. For synonymy, discussion, and a key to genera of Psolidae see O’Loughlin & Maric (2008), with removal of ‘lacking calcareous towers’ from point one emended in O’Loughlin & Whitfield (2010). The authors recommend here that ‘thin calcareous’ also be omitted from the point one description of the sole to allow for the inclusion of Ceto which has a thicker, leathery sole. The diagnosis of Psolidae above does not admit Neopsolidium Pawson, 1964. There are no Australian species of Echinopsolus, Lissothuria or Ekkentropelma.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.278771 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9A393E3BDB16FFC9FFDBFFC4FF89FFBD (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/66004643DB17FFC8FF4CFCDAFB48FBE8 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psolidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Dendrochirotida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forbes
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psolidae Forbes, 1841 sec. Mackenzie & Whitfield, 2011
References
- Forbes, E. (1841) A history of British starfishes and other animals of the class Echinodermata. John van Voorst: London. 267 pp.
- O'Loughlin, P. M. & Maric, D. (2008) Australian species of Psolidium Ludwig (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 65, 1 - 22.
- O'Loughlin P. M. & Whitfield E. (2010) New species of Psolus Oken from Antarctica (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae). Zootaxa, 2528, 61 - 68.
- Pawson, D. L. (1964) The Holothuroidea collected by the Royal Society Expedition to Southern Chile, 1958 - 1959. Pacific Science, 18 (4), 453 - 70.