Family CAUDINIDAE
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
2001 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
1995 - F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Introduction
The Caudinidae are a cosmopolitan family of four genera, including three recorded in Australian waters. Twelve species are recorded in the Australian fauna.
The family Caudinidae is similar to the Molpadiidae within the order Molpadiida, but is distinguished by the following combination of character states: ossicles represented by large tables or plates or small crossed cups; no phosphatic bodies; tentacles with two pairs of digits but no terminal digit.
General References
Clark, H.L. 1907. The apodous holothurians. A monograph of the Synaptidae and Molpadiidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 35(1723): 1-231 pls 1-13
Pawson, D.L. 1963. The holothurian fauna of Cook Strait, New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 36: 1-38 pls 1-7
Pawson, D.L. 1977. Molpadiid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Biology of the Antarctic Seas VI. Antarctic Research Series 3 26: 97-123 figs 1-8
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 11-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |