Molpadia oolitica Pourtales 1851
Description
Molpadia oolitica (Pourtalès 1851)
Figure 34
Chiridota oolitica Pourtalès 1851: 13.
Molpadia oolitica.— Pawson et al, 2001: 322, figs. 3C–E.
Material examined. DML 1475, N.C., 4°22.8’N, 75°51.4’W, R/V Eastward E-60-65, 3 November 29, 1965, 200 m.
Diagnosis. Large species up to 150 mm long; phosphatic bodies abundant, therefore adult animals dark red to blackish. Body wall ossicles three-pillared tables (245 µm in diameter), with up to 12 holes, disc with marginal projections as holes often incomplete; tables reduced with age. Tail with elongate oval tables (110µm long), with three-pillared spire and up to 20 perforations.
Distribution. MA south to E and W FL, Gulf of Mexico.
Habitat. Mud, buried or in shallow depressions in seabed. 90– 720 m.
Remarks. The dark red to blackish body of this species, and the posterior grayish tail, are distinctive.
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Published as part of Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J. & King, Rachael A., 2010, A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 2449 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195134Files
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- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.195168 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Molpadiidae
- Genus
- Molpadia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Molpadida
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pourtales
- Species
- oolitica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Molpadia oolitica Pourtales, 1851 sec. Pawson, Pawson & King, 2010
References
- Pourtales, L. F. (1851) On the Holothuriae of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fifth meeting, held at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1851, pp. 8 - 16.
- Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance & C. Ahearn (2001) Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the Order Molpadiida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 10, 311 - 327.