Aslia Rowe, 1970

Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J. & King, Rachael A., 2010, A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), Zootaxa 2449, pp. 1-48 : 14-15

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We are in agreement with our colleague F.W.E. Rowe, who has suggested (personal communication) that the following two species should be transferred from the genus Ocnus Forbes, 1841 , to Aslia Rowe, 1970 .

Because these species possess ossicles in the form of four-holed knobbed buttons and an external layer of deep quadrilocular cups, they conform more closely to Aslia in the strict sense. In contrast, Ocnus , as envisaged by Rowe (1970) and Rowe and Gates (1995) possesses buttons with more than four holes, and simple, shallow, trilocular cups.

References

Forbes, E. (1841) A history of british star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata. J. van Voorst, London. 267 pp.

Rowe, F. W. E. (1970) A note on the british species of cucumarians, involving the erection of two new nominal genera. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 50, 683 - 687.

Rowe, F. W. E. & J. Gates (1995) Echinodermata. In A. Wells (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. CSIRO Australia, Melbourne. 510 pp.