Figure 6 a, 18
Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1854: 121; Pawson, 1977: 12, text-fig. 16. Cucumaria pulcherrima.— Deichmann, 1930: 157, pl. 11 figs. 13–16.
Material examined. SERTC 1046, Inlet Creek, behind Sullivan’s Island, SC, 32 °47.7'N, 79 °49.24'W, 2.4 m, coll. SERTC Staff, May 13 2004. SERTC 1047, Folly Beach, SC, 32 °39.2'N, 79 °56.5'W, coll. J. Monck, April 9 2004. SERTC 2130, off Charleston Harbor, 32 °30.28'N, 79 °38.56'W, 20.1 m, coll. SERTC Staff, April 30 2005. SERTC 2458, southeast end of Folly Island, SC, 32 °38.56'N, 79 °58.47'W, 0.7 m, coll. D. Knott, February 26 2002. SERTC 2208, Edisto Beach, SC, 0.5 m, coll. GML Staff, March 19 1973.
Diagnosis. Body about 5 cm in length, with anterior and posterior ends upturned. Color white to pinkish to dirty brown. Feet confined to radii. Tentacles 10, bushy, with the 2 ventral smaller. Skin thin, wrinkled and stiff because of the abundance of ossicles. Ossicles regular, oval tables (to 70 μm long) with 4 holes and a low spire, composed of 2 rods ending in 2–3 blunt teeth. A few thin, elongate plates with 2 central holes, and a variable number of smaller holes near the ends, may be found. A great number of irregular plates crowded around anus.