Family SCLERODACTYLIDAE
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 Sclerodactylidae is known from the Indo-Pacific region and Atlantic Ocean. Some 19 genera are known, including four from Australian waters. Seven Australian species are recorded.
The family is distinguished from other dendrochirotid families by the following combination of character states: tentacles 10–20, calcareous ring with entire, not multiplated bifurcate processes on the radial plates; ossicles include plates or tables with two pillars which may be variously reduced or modified.
General References
Heding, S.G. & Panning, A. 1954. Phyllophoridae. Eine Bearbeitung der polytentaculaten dendrochiroten Holothurien des Zoologischen Museums in Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 13: 1-209 figs 1-102
Panning, A. 1949. Versuch einer Neuordnung der Familie Cucumariidae. Zoologische Jahrbücher 78: 404-470 figs 1-62
Pawson, D.L. & Fell, H.B. 1965. A revised classification of the dendrochirote holothurians. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 214: 1-7
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) |