Psolus Oken, 1815

O’Loughlin, P. Mark, Mackenzie, Melanie & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2013, New sea cucumber species from the seamounts on the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida, Elasipodida, Dendrochirotida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 70, pp. 37-50 : 45-46

Psolus Oken, 1815

Diagnosis (from Mackenzie and Whitfield, 2011). Species of Psolidae with large imbricating or contiguous dorsal and lateral scales; ventrolateral scales at margin clearly demarcated from thin sole that lacks conspicuous scales; tube feet absent dorsally and laterally, except sometimes present orally and anally; 10 dendritic tentacles, eight large and two small ventrally.

Remarks. Oken, 1815 was rejected for systematic validity by ICZN (1956, opinion 417).Paulay and O’Loughlin have submitted an application to ICZN for Oken, 1815 validity as author of Psolus (case 3598). We use the authorship here provisionally.