Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1992 - Natural history |
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... Remarks Heding ( 1940 ) referred this genus , together with several others previously occupying isolated positions in the Synallactidae , to the family Gephyrothuri- idae , diagnosed by Koehler & Vaney ( 1905 ) for their monotypic ...
... Remarks Heding ( 1940 ) referred this genus , together with several others previously occupying isolated positions in the Synallactidae , to the family Gephyrothuri- idae , diagnosed by Koehler & Vaney ( 1905 ) for their monotypic ...
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... Remarks This is an exclusively deep - sea order of usually large , often bizarre holothurians with peltate tentacles and no respiratory trees . In an excellent revision of the order , Hansen ( 1975 ) assembled the approximately 110 ...
... Remarks This is an exclusively deep - sea order of usually large , often bizarre holothurians with peltate tentacles and no respiratory trees . In an excellent revision of the order , Hansen ( 1975 ) assembled the approximately 110 ...
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... Remarks This genus was erected by Théel ( 1879 ) for the West Indian species O. asper , characterized by only spinous rods in the body wall . Since then the following eight Indo - West Pacific species , all referable to Orphnurgus ...
... Remarks This genus was erected by Théel ( 1879 ) for the West Indian species O. asper , characterized by only spinous rods in the body wall . Since then the following eight Indo - West Pacific species , all referable to Orphnurgus ...
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A. M. Clark Abbreviation absent ambulacrum asper Théel beam trawl bicuspidata body-wall spicules Calcareous ring dichotomous ramifications dichotomously ramified rods discs Dorsal body wall dorsal papillae Dorsal spicules double rows echinatus sp Gastropoda genus Globigerina ooze Gonad Heding Heding's Hérouard high number holothurians Holotype Indo-West Pacific Koehler & Vaney Kosi Bay length Ludwig Madreporite Mesothuria parva Théel mid-ventral pedicels number of dorsal number of ventrolateral Orphnurgus aspersignis sp Orphnurgus glaber Orphnurgus insignis Fisher Orphnurgus natalasper sp paratypes Pedicels and dorsal perforated plates podia posteriorly primary crosses Pseudostichopus pteropod R.V. Meiring Naude ramifications Fig references rods with dichotomous rudimentary short spinous rods side max single rows smooth rods Sodwana Bay South African Museum southern African spatulate crosses spatulate rods specimens spinous extremities spiny Stone canal stout Synallactidae synonymy tentacles Tentacular terminal ramifications trachus transformation Type species Ventral body wall ventral deposits ventral spicules ventrolateral ambulacra Ventrolateral papillae Ventrolateral pedicels