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Issue: Vol. 1608 No. 1: 5 Oct. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-10-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1608.1.5
Page range: 35–39
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 24

Heteromolpadia joyceae, a new species of sea cucumber from New Zealand, with a key to New Zealand Molpadiidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadiida)

National Museum of Natural History, Mail Stop MRC163, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20013-7012, USA
National Museum of Natural History, Mail Stop MRC163, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20013-7012, USA
Echinodermata Heteromolpadia joyceae Holothuroidea Molpadiida New Zealand

Abstract

Heteromolpadia joyceae, new species, has been collected from depths of 258–632m off the east coast of New Zealand. It is distinctive in having a tough, leathery skin, gray with scattered red spots. Tables in body wall 100µm in diameter with three larger perforations; tail ossicles with 15–20 perforations, a three-pillared spire, and an average length of 300µm. A key to the eight species of Family Molpadiidae now known from the New Zealand region is provided.

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