A new species of deep-water Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the genus <i>Synallactes</i> from off western Mexico

Claude Massin; Michel E. Hendrickx

doi:10.3989/scimar.2010.74n3599

Authors

Claude Massin Department of Recent Invertebrates, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Michel E. Hendrickx Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2010.74n3599

Keywords:

Holothuroidea, Synallactes n. sp., club-shaped ossicles, deep water, East Pacific, Mexico

Abstract

An undescribed species of Synallactes was collected during a deep-water benthic fauna survey off the Pacific coast of Mexico in the East Pacific, with the R/V El Puma. This new species differs from all the other known Synallactes by the presence of huge massive rods in the tube feet, some of them club-shaped. The later ossicle shape is unique among Holothuroidea. This is the first record of a Synallactes in the Gulf of California.

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