Cucumellidae

Thandar, Ahmed & Arumugam, Preyan, 2011, A new family within the holothuroid order Dactylochirotida with description of a new species from South Africa and comments on the dendrochirotid genus Neoamphicyclus Hickman, 1962 and the molpadid genus Cherbonniera Sibuet, 1974 (Echinodermata), Zootaxa 2971, pp. 40-48 : 41

Family Cucumellidae n. fam.

Diagnosis. Dactylochirotid holothuroids with 12 tentacles; calcareous ring simple, no posterior bifurcations to radial plates; test absent; body wall ossicles comprise simple tables with a trilocular to multilocular, smooth disc and a solid spire ending in 2–3 smooth, diverging processes/teeth.

Remarks. The family is currently monotypic containing only the genus Cucumella with its type species and the new species described herein.