Cucumella triperforata Thandar & Arumugam 2011
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Cucumella triperforata Thandar & Arumugam, 2011
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Cucumella triperforata Thandar & Arumugam, 2011:42, fig. 1–3.
Diagnosis (see Thandar & Arumugam 2011).
Material examined. SAMC-A 090919 SM232, off Port St. Johns, Eastern Cape Province, 32°10.9’ S, 29°10.4’ E, 560–620 m, heavy dredge, 25. VI.1979, 3 spec.; SM236, off Transkei coast, Eastern cape Province, 32°14.03’ S, 29°11.06’ E, heavy dredge, 660–670 m, 25. VI.1979, 1 spec.
Distribution. Off Port St. Johns- East London area, Eastern Cape Province, 560– 775 m.
Remarks. This species was described by Thandar & Arumugam (2011) and was distinguished by the presence of two anal papillae (Figure 11 A) which are conspicuously larger than the rest and the discs of the body wall tables are consistently trilocular (Figure 11B). At 560–620 m this species was collected together with Psolidothuria yasmeena and Stereoderma mohammedi and at 660–670 m together only with the latter species and a young heart urchin.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SAMC-A , SM
- Material sample ID
- SAMC-A090919 , SM232 , SM236
- Event date
- 1979-06-25
- Verbatim event date
- 1979-06-25
- Scientific name authorship
- Thandar & Arumugam
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Dendrochirotida
- Family
- Cucumariidae
- Genus
- Cucumella
- Species
- triperforata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cucumella triperforata Thandar, 2011 sec. Thandar, 2018
References
- Thandar, A. S. & Arumugam, P. (2011) A new family within the Holothuroid order Dactylochirotida with description of a new species from South Africa and comments on the dendorochirotid genus Neoamphicyclus Hickman, 1962 and the molopadid genus Cherbonniera Sibuet, 1974 (Echinodermata). Zootaxa, 2971, 40 - 48.