Sclerodactylidae is a
family
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of
sea cucumbers
Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea (). They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. The number of holothurian ...
, marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and tentacles.
Members of the family are characterised by the complex ring of
ossicles they have near the anterior end. These may or may not take the form of a short tube but are quite unlike the long tubes found in the
phyllophorids. The tentacles number ten to twenty.
Sclerodactylidae
Digital Nature Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following genera:
* genus '' Afrocucumis'' Deichmann, 1944
* genus '' Apentamera'' Deichmann, 1941
* genus '' Athyone'' Deichmann, 1941
* genus '' Cladolabes'' Brandt, 1835
* genus '' Clarkiella'' Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954
* genus '' Coronatum'' Martins & Souto in Martins, Souto & Menegola, 2012
* genus '' Deichmannia'' Cherbonnier, 1958
* genus '' Engeliella'' Cherbonnier, 1968
* genus '' Eupentacta'' Deichmann, 1938
* genus '' Euthyonidiella'' Heding & Panning, 1954
* genus '' Globosita'' Cherbonnier, 1958
* genus '' Havelockia'' Pearson, 1903
* genus '' Neopentamera'' Deichmann, 1941
* genus '' Neothyone'' Deichmann, 1941
* genus '' Ohshimella'' Heding & Panning, 1954
* genus '' Pachythyone'' Deichmann, 1941
* genus '' Pseudothyone'' Panning, 1949
* genus '' Sclerodactyla'' Ayres, 1851
* genus '' Sclerothyone'' Thandar, 1989
* genus '' Temparena'' Thandar, 1989
* genus '' Thandarum'' Martinez & Brogger, 2012
Image:Afrocucumis africana.jpg, '' Afrocucumis africana''
Image:Eupentacta quinquesemita, Explored. Stiff-footed Sea Cucumber.jpg, '' Eupentacta quinquesemita''
Image:Ohshimella ehrenbergii.jpg, '' Ohshimella ehrenbergii''
Image:Pseudothyone belli (Ludwig, 1887).jpg, '' Pseudothyone belli''
Image:Hairy sea cucumber.jpg, '' Sclerodactyla briareus''
See also
*'' Sclerodactyla briareus''
References
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Echinoderm families