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   Two new genera and a new species in the holothurian family Cucumariidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Ahmed S. Thandar --- University of Durban-Westville, South Africa Mageshnee Natasen Moodley --- University of Durban-Westville, South Africa

   Two new genera, Trachycucumis and Trachasina, in the holothurian family Cucumariidae, are described. The former is erected to accommodate a new southern African cucumariid, here described as T. plettenbergi, from the southeast coast of South Africa, and the Trachythyone sp...

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   A new dendrochirotid sea cucumber from the west coast of South Africa (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mageshnee Natasen Moodley --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

   Five specimens of a small cucumariid holothuroid collected between 18–32 m, from off St. Helena Bay on the west coast of Western Cape Province, South Africa, are new to science and here described. The presence of unequal tentacles, naked interambulacra,...

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