Caudinidae Heding, 1931

O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Barmos, Shari & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2011, The paracaudinid sea cucumbers of Australia and New Zealand (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadida: Caudinidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68, pp. 37-65 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2011.68.03
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666134
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/280A4125-F40E-FFC3-3DA7-D706FEF5FD2C
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Caudinidae Heding, 1931
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Family Caudinidae Heding, 1931 View in CoL

Diagnosis (emended from Pawson and Liao 1992). Tentacles without a terminal digit, and with one or two pairs of lateral digits; tail sometimes inconspicuous; ossicles may include large tables, crossed cups, perforated plates and irregular rods; phosphatic bodies usually absent.

Remarks. We have emended the statement concerning which ossicles may be present, but we have not changed the ossicle types listed.