Published October 31, 2023 | Version v1
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Epitomapta Heding 1928

  • 1. Coleccion Nacional de Equinodermos " Dra. Ma. Elena Caso Munoz ", Laboratorio de Sistematica y Ecologia de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia (ICML), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, C. P. 04510, Mexico
  • 2. Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Av. Ciudad Universitaria 3000, C. P. 04510, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico

Description

Subfamily Leptosynaptinae Smirnov, 1989

Diagnosis.

Pinnate tentacles 10, 11 or 12, with 1-9 digits on each side. Digits increase in size from base to tip of tentacle. Anchor plate develops from a rod which lies at a right angle to stock of developing anchor. Anchor plates with small number of holes, usually seven (6+1) in main part of the plate: six holes form a circle around a central hole. Articular end of plate usually has a “ledge” for contact with anchor keel. Anchor arms regularly serrated, rarely smooth, and without minute knobs on the vertex (Heding 1928; Smirnov 1989).

Notes

Published as part of Solis-Marin, Francisco Alonso, Conejeros-Vargas, Carlos Andres, Caballero-Ochoa, Andrea Alejandra & Byers, Sheila Colleen, 2023, Epitomapta aumakua sp. nov., a new species of apodous sea cucumber from Hawai'i (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Apodida), pp. 73-80 in ZooKeys 1183 on page 73, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1183.111620

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References

  • Heding, SG, 1928. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-1916. Synaptidae. Vidensk Meddelel Dansk Naturhist Foren Kobenhavn 85: 105 - 323, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/156168#page/9/mode/1up
  • Smirnov, AV, 1989. Coordination of the system of Recent and Extinct holothurian of the family Synaptidae (in Russian with English summary). In: Kalio, DL, Ed., Fossil and Recent Echinoderm Researches. Academy of Sciences of the Estonian Socialist Soviet Republic, Tallinn: 203 - 217