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Hapalosoma Mortensen 1903

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Description

Hapalosoma Mortensen, 1903

Type species: Asthenosoma pellucidum A. Agassiz, 1879, by original designation.

Diagnosis —Like Araeosoma but smaller and lacking primary tubercles from admedian regions of aboral ambulacral and interambulacral plates. Blades of dactylous pedicellariae reduced to fine, gland-enveloped rods (emended from Fell 1966).

Remarks —There are three assigned species, all Recent (Table 2).

Notes

Published as part of Anderson, Owen F., 2013, A review of New Zealand and southeast Australian echinothuriinids (Echinodermata: Echinothuriidae) with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 521-567 in Zootaxa 3609 (6) on page 559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/219312

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mortensen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Echinodermata
Order
Echinothurioida
Family
Echinothuriidae
Genus
Hapalosoma
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hapalosoma Mortensen, 1903 sec. Anderson, 2013