Temparena Thandar, 1989

Thandar, Ahmed S., 2018, On some miscellaneous sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the collections of the South African Museum with three new species, Zootaxa 4532 (1), pp. 57-85 : 70

Genus Temparena Thandar, 1989

Diagnosis (from Thandar 1989, amended herein).

Small, barrel to U-shaped species up to 25 mm long. Tentacles 10, ventral two reduced to stubs. Skin thin, rigid with ossicles. Mature specimens with radial and interradial plates of calcareous ring small, compact, with radials carrying long, undivided, paired processes much longer than the height of the ring. Body wall ossicles, tables and plates, tables with oval to irregular disc perforated with few (4–8) holes, spire short, 2-pillared, with or without teeth; plates thick, multilocular, elongated, oblong or circular, holes minute, in one species the medial or marginal holes are often occluded, leaving only minute pores. Tube-feet ossicles as minute plates and rods and/or reduced tables. Introvert and tentacle ossicles as perforated plates with crinkled margins.

Remarks. The above diagnosis of Thandar (1989) is modified to include the new species described below. Since mature individuals of the new form is not known this aspect of the original diagnosis is here excluded. Temparena was erected in the subfamily Sclerothyoninae , which has recently been elevated to full family rank by Smirnov (2012).