Family ELPIDIIDAE
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 family Elpidiidae is cosmopolitan with ten known genera. Four genera and five species occur in Australia.
This family is distinguished from other holothurian families in the order Elasipodida by the following combination of character states: 10-12 tentacles, ventrolateral radii each with a few large, well-developed tube feet; midradial tube feet absent, calcarous ring consisting of five star-shaped pieces.
General References
Hansen, B. 1975. Systematics and biology of the deep-sea holothurians. Part I. Elasipoda. Galathea Report 13: 1-262 figs 1-125 pls 1-14
O'Loughlin 1998. Elasipod holothurians from the continental slope of Australia. pp. 499-504, figs 1-2 in Mooi, R. & Telford, M. (eds). Echinoderms: San Francisco: Proceedings of the Ninth International Echinoderm Conference San Francisco, 5-9 August 1996. Rotterdam : A.A. Balkema xxxii 923 pp.
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) |