Chiridotidae
| Chiridotidae | |
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| Chiridota heheva | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Holothuroidea |
| Order: | Apodida |
| Family: | Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898 |
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Chiridotidae is a family of sea cucumbers.
Description
Members of this family have 10, 12, or 18 pelto-digitate tentacles (bearing 3-10 digits on each side). They lack podia, radial canals and respiratory tree.
The soft body wall is supported by ossicles which are generally wheel-shaped with six spokes.[1] Some species have hook-shaped or rod-shaped ossicles or spiny sigmoid bodies.[2]
Taxonomy
The following genera are recognised in the family Chiridotidae:[3]
- Archedota O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin & VandenSpiegel, 2007 -- 1 species
- Chiridota Eschscholtz, 1829 -- 37 species
- Gymnopipina Souto & Martins in Souto et al., 2017 -- 1 species
- †Jumaraina Soodan, 1973 -- 6 species
- Kolostoneura Becher, 1909-- 2 species
- Neotoxodora Liao, Pawson & Liu, 2007 -- 1 species
- Ovalidota Pawson, 2004 -- 1 species
- †Palaeotrochodota Reich, 2003 -- 2 species
- Paradota Ludwig & Heding, 1935 -- 4 species
- Polycheira H.L. Clark, 1908 -- 2 species
- Psammothuria Rao, 1968 -- 1 species
- Rowedota O'Loughlin & VandenSpiegel, 2010 -- 7 species
- Scoliorhapis Clark, 1946 -- 7 species
- Sigmodota Studer, 1876 -- 4 species
- Taeniogyrus Semper, 1867 -- 27 species
- †Theelia Schlumberger, 1890 -- 7 species
References
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- ^ O'Loughlin, P. M. and D. Vandenspiegel. (2007). New apodid species from southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, 53-70.
- ^ Inoue, J. and H. Kajihara. (2012). Redescription of Scoliorhapis lindbergi comb. nov. (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida: Chiridotidae), with special reference to the ultrastructure of sigmoid bodies. Species Diversity 17 15-20.
- ^ Paulay, G. Chiridotidae Östergren, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) 2014.
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