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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Bronn, H.G. (1860). Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Strahlenthiere (Actinozoa) wissenschaftlich dargestellt. In: <em>Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Zweiter Band. Aktinozoen.</em> Leipzig & Heidelberg: C.F. Winter. 434 pp., 48 pls. [details]
original description
(of Jaegeria Bell, 1887) Bell, F. J. (1887). Studies in the Holothuroidea. vi. Description of New Species. Proc. Zool. Soc.: pp. 531-534. [details]
original description
(of Metis Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526 [details] 
original description
(of Muelleria Jaeger, 1833) Jaeger, G. F. (1833). De Holothuriis. <em>Gessnerianis, Turici.</em> 41 pp. 3 pls., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10588969 [details]
basis of record
Cherbonnier, G. (1988). Échinodermes: Holothurides. Faune de Madagascar. <em>Paris, Publicé sous les auspices du Gouvernment de la République Malgache, Éditions de l'ORSTOM.</em> 70: 1-292. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Samyn, Y.; Vandenspiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). A new Indo-West Pacific species of Actinopyga (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1138: 53-68., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.1138.1.3 [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Unreviewed
Diagnosis Life size from moderate to very large (400 mm) in length; body stout with thick and firm body wall, covered by prominent ambulatory tube feet ventrally and, numerous, modified, elongate tube feet (= “papillae”) dorsally; mouth ventral, surrounded by 15–30 large, peltate tentacles; calcareous ring firm, radial pieces about twice as large as interradial pieces; anus dorsal to terminal, guarded by five, nearly always prominent, heavily calcified terminal tube feet (= “anal teeth”). Ossicles in body wall rosettes and straight to branched, smooth or spiny, rods; tentacles with rods of various sizes and forms, often spiny at extremities; tube feet and papillae with rods and rosettes similar to those of body wall, but often with more complex branched rods; longitudinal and cloacal retractor muscles with rods similar to the simple, smooth ones from the body wall; gonad with rods similar to those of body wall; cloacal wall with spiky rods. Tables, buttons or other ossicle types absent from all tissues. Cuvierian organs present or absent, when present never expelled, non-sticky and composed of three distinct parts: (i) smooth proximal half of trunk, (ii) slightly rugged distal half of trunk, and (iii) highly ragged elongated primary and secondary branches. [details]
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