Taeniogyrus maculatus (H. L. Clark, 1921 )

O’Loughlin, P. Mark & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2010, A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67, pp. 61-95 : 86

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https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2010.67.06

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12212356

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scientific name

Taeniogyrus maculatus (H. L. Clark, 1921 )
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Taeniogyrus maculatus (H. L. Clark, 1921) View in CoL

Figure 14 View Figure 14 ; table 3

Trochodota maculata H. L. Clark, 1921: 163 View in CoL , pl. 36 figs 14–21.— H. L. Clark, 1946: 460.— Rowe, 1976: 203–205, table 1.—Rowe (in Rowe and Gates) 1995: 268.—Smirnov, 1997: 16.

Material examined. E Australia, New South Wales, Newcastle, Swansea Channel , 3 m, 30 Aug 1988, AM J21895 (9); same lot, RBINS IG 31 About RBINS 459 (1 whole for SEM images) .

Diagnosis. Up to 21 mm long (preserved; 26 mm long in Clark 1921); body wall papillate, semi-translucent; tentacles 10, 3 pairs of digits (4–5 in Clark 1921); curved to slightly bracket-shaped tentacle rods; wheels with 6 spokes, spokes broad at rim, narrow at hub, teeth on inner rim of wheels in continuous series; sigmoid hooks with fine spinelets on outer surface of projecting pointed hook, hooks scattered in body wall (hooks in small groups and scattered in Clark 1921); ciliated funnels along base of mid-dorsal mesentery; single sac-like polian vesicle; gonad comprises 2 elongate sacs (ossicle measurements in Table 3).

Colour (preserved). Pale to dark reddish-brown. Colour live is pink with numerous minute dark spots ( Clark 1921).

Type locality. N Australia, Torres Strait , Murray Is, Mer, reef flat .

Distribution. Tropical Australia, 0–20 m (Rowe in Rowe and Gates 1995).

Remarks. Taeniogyrus maculatus (H. L. Clark) is not an Antarctic apodid species but is included here to clarify its generic assignment. The figure of a wheel in H. L. Clark (1921) indicates that the wheel was viewed from the outside and the continuity of teeth around the inner rim obscured by the spokes. This led H. L. Clark to wrongly conclude that the distribution of the teeth was discontinuous. Rowe (1976) followed H. L. Clark (1921). In this study all wheels have continuous series of teeth.

AM

Australian Museum

RBINS

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Holothuroidea

Order

Apodida

Family

Chiridotidae

Genus

Taeniogyrus

Loc

Taeniogyrus maculatus (H. L. Clark, 1921 )

O’Loughlin, P. Mark & VandenSpiegel, Didier 2010
2010
Loc

Trochodota maculata H. L. Clark, 1921: 163

Rowe, F. W. E. 1976: 203
Clark, H. L. 1946: 460
Clark, H. L. 1921: 163
1921
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