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Issue: Vol. 5432 No. 2: 28 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.1
Page range: 151-159
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Actinopyga spinea Cherbonnier, 1980 (Holothuroidea: Holothuriida:Holothuriidae), new addition to the holothuroid fauna of Pakistan

The Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre; University of Karachi; Karachi; 75270 Pakistan
The Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre; University of Karachi; Karachi; 75270 Pakistan
School of Life Sciences; University of KwaZulu-Natal; P/Bagx 54001; Durban 4000; South Africa
The Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre; University of Karachi; Karachi; 75270 Pakistan
Actinopyga sea cucumber new record Makran coast Balochistan Northern Arabian Sea Echinodermata

Abstract

We here in report on the first record of Actinopyga spinea from the intertidal zone from Balochistan, Pakistan in the northern Arabian Sea. Its taxonomic characters, habitat and distribution are described.

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